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A note about "Faster algorithms for computing Hong's bound on absolute positiveness" by K. Mehlhorn and S. Ray

Symbolic Computation 2016-11-22 v1

Abstract

We show that a linear-time algorithm for computing Hong's bound for positive roots of a univariate polynomial, described by K. Mehlhorn and S. Ray in an article "Faster algorithms for computing Hong's bound on absolute positiveness", is incorrect. We present a corrected version.

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@article{arxiv.1611.06548,
  title  = {A note about "Faster algorithms for computing Hong's bound on absolute positiveness" by K. Mehlhorn and S. Ray},
  author = {Przemysław Koprowski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.06548},
  year   = {2016}
}