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Finding real roots of negative numbers (for example, $\sqrt[3]{-8}$)
Say I want to quickly calculate $\sqrt[3]{-8}$, to which the most obvious solution is $-2$.
When I input $\sqrt[3]{-8}$ or Power[-8, 3^-1], Mathematica gives the ...
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Funny behaviour when plotting a polynomial of high degree and large coefficients
I am trying to plot a polynomial of degree 29 on the domain [0,1], with fairly large coefficients:
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