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| Karl
                Georg Christian von Staudt describes a method like this
                in a paper of 1841. More details can be found in a publication of Felix Klein:  | |
|   | The option is available
                if 4/p has been fixed (upper blue axis). Checking the
                box will mark certain values of q/p (lower red axis) - q is a multiple of the raster size, and - the roots x1 and x2 are multiples of the raster size. | 
|  | Select the
                raster size, or a continuous mode ("Raster off"). A table of p, q, x1, x2 is available by "Data Window". | 
|  Quadratic equation: x2 + px + q = 0 Example: 4/p=2, q/p=4, equivalent p=2, q=-8, roots: x1=-4, x2=2 | 
