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I've got an idiosyncratic addition to these answers:
(a) Regarding contemporary mathematical uses of the Cardano formula, I coauthored an article that "uses" it! The role it plays in the paper is essentially as inspiration: we noticed that the set of roots of a family of polynomials we cared about had the same form as the roots of a "depressed" cubic as ...
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