Re:Show HN: Algebra.js – Build, display, and solve algebraic...
by nicolewhite on Saturday August 15, 2015 @09:58AM
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Yes, thank you for the clarification. Maybe "incomplete" was the wrong word; I was referring to the note on the Wikipedia page:
> At this point, Cardano, who did not know complex numbers, supposed that the roots of this equation were real, that is that q^2/4 + p^3/27 > 0.
I actually had initial plans to do it Cardano's way: I added a Complex class for the very situation you described[0], but ended up abandoning it as the trig solution seemed more straightforward.
> At this point, Cardano, who did not know complex numbers, supposed that the roots of this equation were real, that is that q^2/4 + p^3/27 > 0.
I actually had initial plans to do it Cardano's way: I added a Complex class for the very situation you described[0], but ended up abandoning it as the trig solution seemed more straightforward.
[0] https://github.com/nicolewhite/algebra.js/commit/47b6cbba375...