AC Method
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AC Method
The
method is an algorithm for factoring quadratic polynomials of the form
with integercoefficients. As its name suggests, the crux of the algorithm is to consider the multiplicative factors of the product of the coefficients
and
. More precisely, the goal is to find an integer pair
and
satisfying
and
simultaneously, whereby one can rewrite
in the form
 |
(1)
|
and to factor the remaining four-term polynomial by grouping into a product of linear factors with integer coefficients.
For example, consider the polynomial
having coefficients
,
, and
. To begin the
factorization, consider the product
. By observation,
while
; in particular, this guarantees that
can be rewritten so that
 |
(2)
|
This four-term expression for
can be factored by grouping:
 |
(3)
|
and so
 |
(4)
|
One can easily see that the above method generalizes to certain polynomials of the form
for positive integers
, though the result will be a factorization into pairs of polynomials of degree
which aren't necessarily linear.
This procedure is an alternative to the more straightforward utilization of the quadratic formula and has a number of drawbacks. For example, finding
and
hinges on observation and/or guess-and-check; this can be particularly problematic when the product
has a large number of factors. Moreover, while the quadratic formula illustrates immediately the existence of irrational and/or imaginary roots, the
method often disguises such behavior and thus requires a degree of "pre-processing," e.g., by analyzing the polynomial discriminant.
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