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Re: Help to solve numerical equation

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  • Subject: [mg43753] Re: Help to solve numerical equation
  • From: poujadej at yahoo.fr (Jean-Claude Poujade)
  • Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 02:28:42 -0400 (EDT)
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bobhanlon at aol.com (Bob Hanlon) wrote in message news:<blgiif$feh$1 at smc.vnet.net>...
> NSolve is used primarily with polynomial equations.  Use FindRoot.
> 
> 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;
> 
> FindRoot[eq==0,{x,.0004}]
> 
> {x -> 0.00042907}
> 
> 
> Bob Hanlon

Right! But FindRoot doesn't "see" there's another root...

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jcp


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