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  2. Vieta's formulas - Wikipedia

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    Vieta's formulas are frequently used with polynomials with coefficients in any integral domain R.Then, the quotients / belong to the field of fractions of R (and possibly are in R itself if happens to be invertible in R) and the roots are taken in an algebraically closed extension.

  3. Sums of powers - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics and statistics, sums of powers occur in a number of contexts: . Sums of squares arise in many contexts. For example, in geometry, the Pythagorean theorem involves the sum of two squares; in number theory, there are Legendre's three-square theorem and Jacobi's four-square theorem; and in statistics, the analysis of variance involves summing the squares of quantities.

  4. Gauss sum - Wikipedia

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    In algebraic number theory, a Gauss sum or Gaussian sum is a particular kind of finite sum of roots of unity, typically ():= (,) = ()where the sum is over elements r of some finite commutative ring R, ψ is a group homomorphism of the additive group R + into the unit circle, and χ is a group homomorphism of the unit group R × into the unit circle, extended to non-unit r, where it takes the ...

  5. Complex conjugate root theorem - Wikipedia

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    This requires some care in the presence of multiple roots; but a complex root and its conjugate do have the same multiplicity (and this lemma is not hard to prove). It can also be worked around by considering only irreducible polynomials ; any real polynomial of odd degree must have an irreducible factor of odd degree, which (having no multiple ...

  6. Sum of radicals - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, a sum of radicals is defined as a finite linear combination of n th roots: =, where , are natural numbers and , are real numbers.. A particular special case arising in computational complexity theory is the square-root sum problem, asking whether it is possible to determine the sign of a sum of square roots, with integer coefficients, in polynomial time.

  7. Cubic equation - Wikipedia

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    This allows computing the multiple root, and the third root can be deduced from the sum of the roots, which is provided by Vieta's formulas. A difference with other characteristics is that, in characteristic 2, the formula for a double root involves a square root, and, in characteristic 3, the formula for a triple root involves a cube root.

  8. Newton's identities - Wikipedia

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    Denoting by h k the complete homogeneous symmetric polynomial (that is, the sum of all monomials of degree k), the power sum polynomials also satisfy identities similar to Newton's identities, but not involving any minus signs.

  9. Ramanujan's sum - Wikipedia

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    Therefore, there are φ(q) primitive q-th roots of unity. Thus, the Ramanujan sum c q (n) is the sum of the n-th powers of the primitive q-th roots of unity. It is a fact [3] that the powers of ζ q are precisely the primitive roots for all the divisors of q. Example. Let q = 12. Then