Pictures of roots of polynomials

[Russ Abbott]

John Baez has pictures (created by other people) of roots of polynomials: http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/week285.html

"Sam Derbyshire decided to to make a high resolution plot of some roots of polynomials. After some experimentation, he decided that his favorite were polynomials whose coefficients were all 1 or -1 (not 0). He made a high-resolution plot by computing all the roots of all polynomials of this sort having degree 24. That's 2²⁴ polynomials, and about 24 × 2²⁴ roots — or about 400 million roots! It took Mathematica 4 days to generate the coordinates of the roots, producing about 5 gigabytes of data. He then used some Java programs to create this amazing image:"

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