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by Sharlin 4276 days ago
I think coefficients that are merely linear (or even polynomial!) functions of the degree are all "almost equal to 1" in this case. As user conistonwater mentions in another comment, "I also think it's important to mention that the roots ax^300-b have magnitude (b/a)^(1/300), which is much closer to 1 than b/a, which is why the magnitudes of a and b don't matter very much."