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Or maybe it assumes rational roots.

• pedrosorio 4y ago
  Which would be useless in context because even for quadratic polynomial problems in middle school, very often the solutions are irrational.
  • TimTheTinker 4y ago
    In which case it could say "no rational solutions found"
    • pedrosorio 4y ago
      Yeah, I could also write a program that checks if all solutions are 0 and output the factorization, otherwise say "there are non-zero solutions". That's far from "a program that factors polynomials". If you brag about how "you can design a computer program to factor any polynomial equation string input to it" in a class about quadratic equations and your code can't factor x^2 - 2, that's just not very impressive, regardless of your age.