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We show that the zeros of a trigonometric polynomial of degree N with the usual (2N + 1) terms can be calculated by computing the eigenvalues of a matrix of dimension 2N with real-valued elements Mjk. This matrix 
is a multiplication matrix in the sense that, after first defining a vector 
whose elements are the first 2N basis functions, 
. This relationship is the eigenproblem; the zeros tk are the arccosine function of λk/2 where the λk are the eigenvalues of . We dub this the “Fourier Division Companion Matrix”, or FDCM for short, because it is derived using trigonometric polynomial division. We show through examples that the algorithm computes both real and complex-valued roots, even double roots, to near machine precision accuracy.
