If you enter this example of a polynomial in Wolfram Alpha, you get the roots to be 1 and 3, but how can I get a read-out of the multiplicity of each root. Evidently, in this case it is 3 for x = 1 and 2 for x = 3.
Hi,
you might want to go to the open cloud:
https://sandbox.open.wolframcloud.com/
and type in:
Roots[7 (x - 1)^3 (x - 3)^2 == 0, x]
The out put will be:
Cheers,
Marco
Thank you! Just got it running now.
I just got an email with a comment of yours:
Sorry, I’m not familiar with this cloud feature, and it’s prompting me
to decide between Wolfram Alpha input and Free-form input. And in
either case I am not getting to reproduce your answer.
It doesn’t show up here yet. But as a matter of fact you should not be prompted to decide between Wolfram Alpha or Free-form input. If you just click on the workspace and start typing it should work. Alternatively, if you click on the litte plus symbol you can choose Wolfram Language Input:
and start to type.
Cheers,
Marco
PS: Sorry, sometimes the comments show up with quite some delay on the Community.