Tartaglia's Poem
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Mnemonic
Tartaglia's poem is a mnemonic for the solution of the cubic equation:
- When the cube and its things near
- Add to a new number, discrete
- Determine two new numbers different
- By that one; this feat
- Will be kept as a rule
- Their product always equal, the same
- To the cube of a third
- Of the number of things named.
- Then, generally speaking
- The remaining amount
- Of the cube roots subtracted
- Will be our desired count.
Source of Name
This entry was named for Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia.