How many times during your educational career have you thought to yourself, “When on earth am I ever -- and I mean ever -- going to use this?” I would venture to guess we’ve all thought this a time or ...

There are many known asymptotic estimates for the expected number of real zeros of a trigonometric polynomial V(θ) = a₀ + a₁ cosθ + a₂ cos2θ + . . . + an cos nθ with independent identically ...

where vector is an n ×1 (or 1 ×n) vector containing the coefficients of an (n-1) degree polynomial with the coefficients arranged in order of decreasing powers. The POLYROOT function returns the array ...