Example from README stalls

dlfivefifty commented 7 years ago

julia> using Polynomials

julia> x = poly([0])
Poly(x)

julia> fzeros(x^5 -x - 1)
ERROR: UndefVarError: fzeros not defined

julia> using Roots
INFO: Precompiling module Roots.

julia> fzeros(x^5 -x - 1)  #killed after over an hour

dlfivefifty commented 7 years ago

julia> versioninfo()
Julia Version 0.5.0
Commit 3c9d753 (2016-09-19 18:14 UTC)
Platform Info:
  System: Darwin (x86_64-apple-darwin16.3.0)
  CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3820QM CPU @ 2.70GHz
  WORD_SIZE: 64
  BLAS: libgfortblas
  LAPACK: liblapack
  LIBM: libopenlibm
  LLVM: libLLVM-3.7.1 (ORCJIT, ivybridge)

julia> Pkg.status()
25 required packages:
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jverzani commented 7 years ago

Hmm, that's bad :( Thanks for reporting it. I'll have a look.

KronosTheLate commented 2 years ago

The example has been updated, and this can be closed.

JuliaMath / Roots.jl

Example from README stalls #59