Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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401491 | Journal of Symbolic Computation | 2015 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
In 1879 Lagrange asserted without a proof that a certain sum of two radicals would always be an upper bound on the positive roots of any polynomial having a positive leading coefficient and at least two negative coefficients. The claim was nearly forgotten and never proved. This paper provides a nontrivial proof by Krandick and his application of the resulting theorem to an improvement of the very effective Hong root bound.
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George E. Collins,