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Re:Teenager Solves Stubborn Riddle About Prime Number Look-A... by ctchocula on Friday October 14, 2022 @05:21AM (#33201337)
To clarify, there do exist closed form solutions for quintic functions; they just cannot be expressed using rationals and a limited set of operations of additions, subtractions, multiplications, divisions, and root extractions. However, if you do not limit yourself to those operations, there do exist closed form solutions to quintics. See [1] for a few examples.

[1] https://mathworld.wolfram.com/QuinticEquation.html

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