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Re: Help to solve numerical equation

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  • Subject: [mg43713] Re: Help to solve numerical equation
  • From: Bas Zoetekouw <news200310 at caradhras.net>
  • Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 02:51:07 -0400 (EDT)
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Raul Gomez Riera wrote in comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica:
>  I want to solve the equation below:
>  eq = 0.5*Exp[x*200] + 0.21*Exp[x*500] + 0.1*Exp[x*110] + 
>      0.07*Exp[x*(15)] + 0.018*Exp[x*(-16)] + 0.002*Exp[x*(-263)] - 1
>  and I am try whith:
>  NSolve[eq == 0, x ]
>  but Mathematica don't get any result. We have Mathematica 4.0 on linux.

You should use findroot instead of NSolve:

In[7]:= FindRoot[eq,{x,0}]

Out[7]= {x -> 0.00042907}
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Kind regards,
  Bas Zoetekouw               ``Si l'on sait exactement ce que l'on va
                                faire, a quoi bon le faire?''
  bas at o2w.nl                                           Pablo Picasso


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