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- From: maxtal@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (John MAX Skaller)
- Subject: Re: IS C++ a language for the "average programmer"
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.145347.18572@ucc.su.OZ.AU>
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- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 14:53:47 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec28.053645.17136@nuscc.nus.sg> tim@iss.nus.sg (Tim Poston) writes:
- >Anybody who thinks they can prove that every complex polynomial
- >has at least one root without using analysis
- >(the study of the kind of proofs that apply to calculus),
- >see me after class.
- >
-
- But this is silly, since R is constructed by analysis.
- Given R, and the fact that every positive real has a root in R,
- and every polyn of odd degree over R has a zero in R,
- the Fundamental Theorem of *Algebra* (all polyns over C can be reduced
- to linear factors) follows by algebra.
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