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Question: maple's factor option.

Question:maple's factor option.

Al86 145 Maple 2021
radical exact factor
December 08 2021
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How can factorise a polynomial with complex roots, without showing their numerical values of the roots, but only their symbolical value.

For example I have:

factor(x^4 - x^2 + x - 1)

and it shows me the following factorisation: (x-1)(x^3+x^2+1) but I want to also factorise x^3+x^2+1 but the roots should be displayed symbolically without numerical values of these roots. Then how to implement this task?

In the book I am reading it's stated to use factor(x^4-x^2+x-1, I), but it doesn't seem to be working.
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