Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Formation of a polynomial equation from given roots

If α1, α2, α3,...,αk are the roots of an nth degree equation

xn-S1xn-1+S2xn-2-S3xn-3++...+(-1)nSn = 0

where Sk denotes the sum of the products of roots taken k at a time.

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