[SciPy-user] how to resolve a cubic equation in scipy?

David Warde-Farley dwf at cs.toronto.edu
Fri May 16 13:31:29 EDT 2008


On 16-May-08, at 9:17 AM, Alan G Isaac wrote:

> Cubics have a closed form solution:
> http://mathworld.wolfram.com/CubicFormula.html

Careful; the one that's most often presented in math textbooks is,  
IIRC, numerically unstable.

David




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