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overview
An equation of the form
can be solved by factoring out the smallest power
that occurs in the term.
As a product is zero iff at least one the factors is zero, you get the (
)-fold solution of the equation
The further
solution can be calculated by solving the term in the brackets
(Authors: Jahn/Knödler)
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automatically generated 7/ 8/2004