Talk:Polynomial synthetic division

Dup?

I think this task is a duplicate of Polynomial long division

That said, when I use an implementation from that page to divide 1, -12, 0, -42 by 1, -3 I get a result of 2.44444, -4.66667, -14 and a remainder of -1.44444 (or quite similar numbers expressed as fractions with 9 in the denominator if I ask for exact results). This is because that implementation places the constant on the left hand side and powers increase to the right. If I reverse the representation of the polynomials I get an answer similar to that of the current python example here.

But that just illustrates that the task is also underspecified (since the task description says nothing about this issue - though it's true that if I follow the seventh link in the current version of the proposed task page I do find a representation where the constant coefficient is rightmost and powers increase to the left).

Anyways, I think maybe the best approach here would be to merge useful content onto the other page and create a #redirect link so that either page title will get to the content. Does that seem reasonable? --Rdm (talk) 23:16, 5 June 2015 (UTC)