[Rd] PR#751
Peter Dalgaard BSA
p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk
17 Jan 2001 18:00:38 +0100
apjaworski@mmm.com writes:
> ... snip ...
>
> > For example, in Win 98, R 1.1.1,
> >
> > > polyroot(c(2,1,1))
> >
> > correctly (per the help index) gives the roots of 1 + (1*x) + (2*x^2) as
> >
> > [1] -0.5+1.322876i -0.5-1.322876i
>
> Mm, no. The coefficients are by increasing degree, so these are the
> roots of 2+x+x^2
>
> ... snip ...
>
> The manual page seems to have a typo. It says (1.2.0 on Win)
>
> Arguments:
>
> z: the vector of polynomial coefficients in decreasing order.
>
I suppose that could be clearer (it kind of depends on what you
consider the "normal" order), but it also has
p(x) = z1 + z2 * x + ... + z[n] * x^(n-1)
which should be clear enough.
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