Lines of best fit for the zeros and for the critical points of a polynomial

Keady, Grant

doi:10.4169/amer.math.monthly.118.03.262

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Keady, Grant

Date

2011

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Journal Article

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Keady, Grant. 2011. Lines of best fit for the zeros and for the critical points of a polynomial. American Mathematical Monthly. 118 (3): pp. 262-264.

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American Mathematical Monthly

DOI

10.4169/amer.math.monthly.118.03.262

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00029890

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Department of Mathematics and Statistics

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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/12405

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Curtin Research Publications

Abstract

Combining results presented in two papers in this MONTHLY yields the following elementary result. Any line of best fit for the zeros of a polynomial is a line of best fit for its critical points