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The Descartes Rule of Sweeps

Something about Descartes’ Rule of Signs had bothered me ever since my exposure to it in high school. As you know, the Rule of Signs runs something like this: For a polynomial with non-zero real coefficients, the number of positive roots is, at most, the number of sign changes in the coefficient sequence (ordered by power); more […]

Posted 20 July, 2012 by Blue in Misc. Math, Open Question