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Partial Fraction Decomposition by Repeated Synthetic Division
Department of Mathematics, Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, AL, USA
Department of Mathematics, Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, AL, USA
- 1 Department of Mathematics, Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, AL, USA
- 2 Department of Mathematics, Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, AL, USA
American Journal of Computational Mathematics·Volume 06 (2016)·Pages 153–158·Published 27 April 2016·DOI10.4236/ajcm.2016.62016
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Abstract
We present an efficient and elementary method to find the partial fraction decomposition of a rational function when the denominator is a product of two highly powered linear factors.
KeywordsPartial Fraction DecompositionSynthetic DivisionHeaviside Coverup
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