Root finding

Is there any function in RUBY that can be used to find roots of
arbitrary polynomial functions?

Thank you.
Phidippus

Phidippus wrote:

Is there any function in RUBY that can be used to find roots of
arbitrary polynomial functions?

Ruby/GSL has polynomial solvers (http://rb-gsl.rubyforge.org/poly.html\). You'll have to build the GNU Scientific Library (http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/\) and the Ruby extension, but that went pretty smoothly for me.

Send me a test problem if you want and I'll show you the output.

Steve