Calabi's Triangle

Author

Eric W. Weisstein
April 16, 2004

This notebook downloaded from http://mathworld.wolfram.com/notebooks/PlaneGeometry/CalabisTriangle.nb.

For more information, see Eric's MathWorld entry http://mathworld.wolfram.com/CalabisTriangle.html.

©2005 Wolfram Research, Inc. except for portions noted otherwise

Value

Max[Last/@List@@Reduce[2x^3-2x^2-3x+2==0,x,Reals]]

Solve[2x^3-2x^2-3x+2==0,x]

x /. FindRoot[2x^3-2x^2-3x+2==0,{x,1.5}]

Chop[N[%]]

r=x /. FindRoot[2x^3-2x^2-3x+2==0,{x,1.5},
		WorkingPrecision->100]

Continued Fraction

ContinuedFraction[r,20]