How to find Positive root of the following equation:
34*x^2 + 68*x - 510 using IDLE

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How to find Positive root of the following equation:
34*x^2 + 68*x - 510 using IDLE

e.mccormick · Answer

Well, what did you code up so far in Python?

anonymous · Answer

Well, there's a library 'SymPy' for it. Do you want the code to compute it?

anonymous · Answer

LOL it's just a quadratic so if you want you can define the quadratic formula which takes the coefficients of the formula as an input and outputs roots e.g.

def quadratic(a,b,c):
    from math import sqrt as s
    answer1 =  (-b + s(b**2 - 4*ac)) / float(2*a)
    answer2 =  (-b - s(b**2 - 4*ac)) / float(2*a)
    return answer1 , answer2

# then put in the above question

print quadratic(34,68,-510)

# and it will give you the answer