Brain Teaser - Minimum distance between two curves

[Jonathan Cameron]

(11-21-2015 01:46 AM)Thomas Klemm Wrote:  

(11-18-2015 11:47 PM)Jonathan Cameron Wrote:  When I got rid of that assumption, I get a gory polynomial ...

\[
4x^5+6x^3-x^2=\frac{1}{8}
\]

This looks rather harmless to me.

Cheers
Thomas

You are right; not too bad. I had not simplified it yet...

-Jonathan