Talk:Characteristic equation (calculus)

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Did you know... that mathematician Leonhard Euler discovered that a simple characteristic equation could be used to solve certain linear homogeneous differential equations?

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Repeated roots edit

Somebody check my edit in the repeated real roots section that the degree of u(x) is k-1 instead of k. Hate changing someone's equation; so easy to goof.

173.25.54.191 (talk) 22:28, 14 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It's been a while but i'm pretty sure it's suppose to say k. Since it's a polynomial of k terms and the alternate solutions, after the one with the repeated roots, are k-1. Gonna revert, if it's wrong feel free to revert. DrinkV0dka (talk) 06:44, 19 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]