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| | : cubic equation amounts to finding the roots of a cubic function. ,EXPLORE INDIA,India, Indian news, Indian Travel, ... |
 | | Cubic equations were known to the ancient Indians and ancient Greeks since the 5th century BC, and even earlier to the ancient Egyptians, who dealt with the problem of doubling the cube, and attempted to solve it using compass and straightedge constructions. |
 | | In an early paper he wrote regarding cubic equations, he discovered that a cubic equation can have more than one solution, that it cannot be solved using earlier compass and straightedge constructions, and found a geometric solution which could be used to get a numerical answer by consulting trigonometric tables. |
 | | In fact, all cubic equations can be reduced to this form if we allow m and n to be negative, but negative numbers were not known at that time. |
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