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BTW thanks for the link to Wolfram - I tried it with numbers of four significant figures and it worked.

I looked at my workings for verifying the figures of 1.75 and 0.0036 and found that I was still using an early estimate for...

Yep! Still have my slide rule. I agree that Darwin's expressions and mine are the same, I'm only questioning why it was necessary to...

The relations between the three root ##(r_1, r_2, r_3)## and the quantities ##R## and ##Q## are given in the paper by C. Darwin...

Hi TSny, I've had a look at the paper you recommended and yes it shows the relationship between the roots of the cubic and Q and R, but...

Figure 25.7 in MTW is unusual in that it introduces formulae with no real explanation as to how they have been derived. I refer to the...