Factoring Polynomials

[eric]

On Dec 18, 8:37 pm, collin.da... at gmail.com wrote:
> I am trying to write a simple application to factor polynomials. I
> wrote (simple) raw_input lines to collect the a, b, and c values from
> the user, but I dont know how to implement the quadratic equation
>
> x = (-b +or- (b^2 - 4ac)^1/2) / 2a
>
> into python. Any ideas?

with numpy:
from numpy import *

s=[1,-1]
x = -b+s*sqrt( b**2-4*a*c )/(2*a)

Eric
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