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The authors consider an extremal problem for the length \(L(p) = \sum_{k=0}^n |a_k|\) of polynomial \(P(x) = \sum_{k=0}^n a_k x^k\) with the norm \(\|P\|= \max_{0 \leq x \leq 1}|P(x)|<1\). The main result is \(L(P) \leq ((3+\sqrt 8)^n + (3- \sqrt 8)^n)/2\), with equality if \(P_n(x) = \pm T_n(2x-1)\), where \(T_n(x)\) is the Chebyshev polynomial of the first kind. It means that, for an arbitrary polynomial \(P(x) = \sum_{k=0}^n a_k x^k\), the best constant \(A_n = \sup_{P\in \mathcal {P}_n \setminus \{0\}} L(P)/\|P\|\) is \(A_n = T_n(3)\). Also, they give an application to the condition of polynomials on \([0,1]\) in power form. Namely, for a linear map \(M_{n+1}: \mathbb {R}^{n+1} \rightarrow \mathcal {P}_n\), given by \(a = (a_0, a_1,\dots, a_n) \mapsto P(x)\), they prove that cond \(M_{n+1} = \|M_{n+1}\|\cdot \|M_{n+1}^{-1}\|= A_n\) and cond \(M_{n+1} \sim (3 + \sqrt 8)^n/2\), as \(n \rightarrow \infty\).