An electronic digital polynomial root extractor
Richard R. Johnson · 1955
Many mathematical techniques exist for factoring algebraic polynomials. Most require much computation and programming and are practical only for large machine computers. A different approach to the general problem is described. The mathematical method is an adaptation of a Taylor series approximation used to connect the problem and its formulation with a special machine implementation. The result is a simple digital computer capable of extracting the complex roots of an nth degree polynomial.