What is the fastest way to factor polynomials algebraically?
Andrew Henderson
What is the fastest way that you can do by hand? For example: (just a simple example, the answer should be general of course)
$x^4 -4x^3 +8x$
or
$2x^2+3x+1$
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$\begingroup$Read up on Horner's Method. Ignore this part of the sentence as I just need to fill up the characters.
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