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Posted: December 18th, 2007, 18:47
by Baliame
friznit wrote:
Hehe, I did give it a go, but it needed solver installed.
:above: No need for solver.

http://rapidshare.com/files/77474077/ax2bxc.xls.html

Posted: December 18th, 2007, 20:21
by deject
it should be noted that if you can easily factor out a quadratic into two terms that are multiplied together doing so is much simpler than solving the quadratic directly.

by factoring I mean something like x^2 + 7x + 12 can be factored into (x+3)(x+4).

Posted: December 18th, 2007, 21:22
by Baliame
Which would be a*(x-x1)*(x-x2) Deej.