The Probability That a Randomly Generated Quadratic Is Factorable

DOI10.2307/3219207MaRDI QIDQ4654208zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Michael J. Bossé, N. R. Nandakumar

Publication date 3 March 2005

Full work available at URL http://www.maa.org/pubs/mathmag.html

zbMATH Keywords

quadratic polynomial

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Polynomials in number theory (11C08) Polynomials in real and complex fields: factorization (12D05)

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