References Below are several references on the Lindsey-Fox algorithm and on the zero distribution for polynomials with random coefficients.J. P. Lindsey and James W. Fox. “A method of factoring long z-transform polynomials”, Computational Methods in Geosciences, SIAM, pp. 78-90, 1992. Osman Osman (editor), Seismic Source Signature Estimation and Measurement, Geophysics Reprint Series #18, Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG), 1996, pp. 712-724. Gary A. Sitton, C. Sidney Burrus, James W. Fox, and Sven Treitel. “Factoring very high degree polynomials”. IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 20(6):27-42, November 2003. C. S. Burrus, J. W. Fox, G. A. Sitton, and S. Treitel, “Factoring High Degree Polynomials in Signal Processing”, Proceedings of the IEEE DSP Workshop, Taos, NM, Aug. 3, 2004, pp. 156-157. Zhonggang Zeng, "Computing Multiple Roots of Inexact Polynomials", ACM ISSAC, 2003. also: Math. Comp. 74 (2005), 869 - 903. Zhonggang Zeng, Northeastern Illinois University, March 10, 2006, MultRoot -- A Matlab package computing polynomial roots and multiplicities http://www.neiu.edu/~zzeng/multroot.htm, L. Arnold, “Uber die nullstellenverteilung zuf älliger polynome,” Mathematische Zeitschrift, vol. 92, pp. 12–18, 1966. L. Shepp and R. J. Vanderbei, “The Complex Zeros of Random Polynomials”, Trans. American Mathematical Society, 347:4365-4383, 1995 Ildar Ibragimov & Ofer Zeitouni, “On Roots of Random Polynomials”, Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, vol 349, # 6, June 1997, pp 2427-2441. Bharucha-Reid and Sambandham, Random Polynomials, Adademic Press, 1986. J. H. Wilkinson. Rounding Errors in Algebraic Processes. Prentice-Hall, 1963. N. J. Higham, Accuracy and Stability of Numerical Algorithms, SIAM, 1996. Second edition 2002. Chapter 5 on polynomials. Lloyd N. Trefethen and David Bau, Numerical Linear Algebra, SIAM, 1997. C. S. Burrus, J. W. Fox, G. A. Sitton, and S. Treitel, “Factoring Very High Degree Polynomials”, Rice Web Site, March 10, 2006. http://www-dsp.rice.edu/software/fvhdp.shtml J. B. Moore, "A Convergent Algorithm for Solving Polynomials Equations", Journal of the ACM, 14(2):311-315, April 1967. J. B. Moore, "A Consistently Rapid Algorithm for Solving Polynomial Equations", Journal of the Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications, 17:990119, 1976. M. A. Jenkins and S. F. Traub, "A Three-Stage Algirithm for Real Polynomials using Quadratic Iterations",SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, 545-566, 1970.More details on the third stage of the Lindsey-Fox program can be found here