Proginoskes wrote:
> On Nov 29, 8:06 am, hagman <goo...@von-eitzen.de> wrote:
>> On 29 Nov., 05:10, "Jon G." <jon8...@peoplepc.com> wrote:
>> [...]
>> You end with a solution but I cannot see what part of your post is the
>> original problem, especially since you seem to abhorr verbs.
> 
> He's posted in the past, and his claim is that he can find the roots
> of any polynomial, no matter what degree it is. (Despite Galois
> Theory, which states that there is no way to do this under
> circumstances which include Jon G's work.) In the past, his
> "algorithms" have failed on almost every example chosen at random; the
> polynomial x-1 yielded the "solution" x=0.7 in one case.
> 
> He's gotten around this by saying his procedure gives an
> _approximation_ to the solution, but methods are already known that
> can do this.

Ah, but do those known methods give 0.7 as an approximation to 1?

>      --- Christopher Heckman