From apjaworski@mmm.com  Wed Jan 17 16:21:10 2001
From: apjaworski@mmm.com (apjaworski@mmm.com)
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 10:21:10 -0600
Subject: [Rd] PR#751
Message-ID: <OF636EC57A.115D0ABC-ON862569D7.00599413@mmm.com>


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> For example, in Win 98, R 1.1.1,
>
> > polyroot(c(2,1,1))
>
> correctly (per the help index) gives the roots of  1 + (1*x) + (2*x^2) as
>
> [1] -0.5+1.322876i -0.5-1.322876i

Mm, no. The coefficients are by increasing degree, so these are the
roots of 2+x+x^2

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The manual page seems to have a typo.  It says (1.2.0 on Win)

Arguments:

       z: the vector of polynomial coefficients in decreasing order.


Andy

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[Rd] PR#751
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