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Expert: - 3/2/2010


Question
How we can solve a cubic equation whose coefficients are lengthy trigonometric functions?(using some shoftware)

Answer
I would use Excel.
Note that it defines sin(), cos(), and tan().
Also note that sec() = 1/cos(), csc() = 1/sin(), and ctn() = 1/tan().

This would generate value.

For solving them, I found an aricle.  It is http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~wtg10/cubic.html
It is not an easy task and more than I ever learned since it was so complicated.

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