Solving A Quartic Equation
The 4 roots for any quartic equation;
where are equal to those of
where, and .
The roots in terms of these 4 coefficients are given by the formula in the image below:
However, this formula is too unwieldy for general use, hence other methods or simpler formulas (given below) are generally used.
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