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Author Topic: Fast way to factorise quartics?  (Read 1396 times)  Share 

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Stroodle

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Fast way to factorise quartics?
« on: June 14, 2009, 03:58:30 pm »
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What's the fastest way to factorise a quartic like:

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Re: Fast way to factorise quartics?
« Reply #1 on: June 14, 2009, 04:50:35 pm »
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You should just test numbers like x = 1, -1 , 2, -2 ... But for this one there doesn't seem to be any whole numbers which can be subbed in, so it will be a calc question.
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Re: Fast way to factorise quartics?
« Reply #2 on: June 14, 2009, 10:23:11 pm »
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yeah pretty sure you don't have to do that without a calculator...correct me if im wrong
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Re: Fast way to factorise quartics?
« Reply #3 on: June 14, 2009, 10:29:49 pm »
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Yea you can't do it without calc.
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