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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @south_korea_ln OP 19 Dec 2024 \ parent \ on: [Not-so-daily puzzle] Nested roots science
You can use Polynomial long division to find the factors of this quartic equation...
But guessing in this case works too, and is faster :)
For the record,
2 and -3 are two roots. The last two roots can easily be found from the remaining quadratic equation. -3 can be discarded due to being a negative number whereas a root is always positive. As for the two roots from the quadratic equation, one is negative, whereas the other one is larger than \sqrt{7} which is in contradiction with the initial root problem, so both can be discarded too. Only 2 is a valid solution to the initial problem.reply