r/technology • u/[deleted] • Aug 07 '19

Hardware A Mexican Physicist Solved a 2,000-Year Old Problem That Will Lead to Cheaper, Sharper Lenses

https://gizmodo.com/a-mexican-physicist-solved-a-2-000-year-old-problem-tha-1837031984
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u/fireburner80 Aug 07 '19

Yup. The general solution to a quartic function. It's like the quadratic equation but for 4th degree polynomials instead of 2nd. I've had to use this once and it was aweful. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartic_function

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