Problem 42518. Roots of quadratic equation

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Jeevan Thomas on 10 Sep 2015

Second test case is faulty

goc3 on 3 Oct 2016

This problem has been edited and is now solvable.

Jihye Sofia Seo on 11 Feb 2017

Perhaps the name of the function needs to be changed?

David Verrelli on 1 Dec 2017

Agreed. The Test Suite is failing because it is (now) calling the built-in MATLAB function roots(p). https://mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/roots.html

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Salman Shaikh on 19 Aug 2015

I don't think this problem will pass anytime as the test suite is faulty. In assertion your_function(x) is used and when i test my code Undefined function or variable 'x' occurs.

Celestino on 20 Aug 2015

I agree

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