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Direct linkCombs, Randel; Walls, Gary L. – Mathematics and Computer Education, 2004
In this note the authors investigate ways to shorten the amount of work involved in using the Rational Roots Theorem to find the rational roots of a polynomial with integral coefficients. The first result is a proof of a fact that we had long suspected, but were never able to find the statement of in any of the college algebra textbooks we had…
Descriptors: Algebra, Mathematical Formulas, College Mathematics
