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    Peter Doyle & Curt McMullen

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On leave from Bell Labs; research supported by an N.S.F. Postdoctoral Fellowship.

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Doyle, P., McMullen, C. Solving the quintic by iteration. Acta Math. 163, 151–180 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02392735

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