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It would also be interesting to include a symbolic math package which would use algebra to find the ''exact'' roots. --[[User:IanOsgood|IanOsgood]] 09:52, 22 February 2008 (MST)
::Your wish is my comand ;-) (I had wanted to include Maple for a while now, just never got around to it...) [[User:Sgeier|Sgeier]] 13:43, 12 March 2008 (MDT)
:::In your Maple example, is there any indication of exact-vs-approximation? (That part of the task description seems somewhat bothersome.) --[[User:TBH|TBH]] 16:54, 12 March 2008 (MDT)
::::hope that claarifies it...[[User:Sgeier|Sgeier]] 14:25, 13 March 2008 (MDT)
== Python example ==
In the Python example, I think it would be better to check if the value of f(x) were within a range including zero (an error bound of sorts) rather than exactly equal to zero. Sometimes computers aren't too good with getting things that exact. --[[User:Mwn3d|Mwn3d]] 23:06, 9 June 2008 (MDT)
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