Roots
 Usage
Notes
 Further Examples
The roots of some cubic and quartic polynomials can be expressed in terms of radicals using Cardano's formulas. The results, while explicit, are often very complicated.
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You can use algebraic numbers instead.
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If any one of the coefficients of the polynomial is inexact, Roots finds approximate roots.
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You can find the roots of univariate polynomials for any finite modulus. When the modulus is not prime there may be more roots than the degree of the polynomial.
This is in contrast to the fundamental theorem of algebra. It states that over the complexes there are as many roots (counting multiplicity) as the degree.
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