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• Subject: [mg33326] Solve fails
• From: Richard Fateman <fateman at cs.berkeley.edu>
• Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 19:51:29 -0500 (EST)
• Organization: University of California, Berkeley
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Solve[x*Sin[x]==x*Sin[x^3],x] gives {{}}

but
Solve[Sin[x]==Sin[x^3],x]  returns unchanged

each gives a warning.

There are very many solutions, among them x=0, x=+-1, 
x=+-2.0253909752730426 approximately

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    • From: "Higinio Ramos" <higra@usal.es>