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Re: findroot

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  • Subject: [mg55392] Re: findroot
  • From: Bill Rowe <readnewsciv at earthlink.net>
  • Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 03:01:59 -0500 (EST)
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

On 3/20/05 at 4:12 AM, andreajagger_8 at hotmail.com (dumb_founded)
wrote:

>How come you can't really store the root spat out by FindRoot in
>some variable?  You just get a set.  I want to get rid of the set
>and have the numerical root stored in some variable.

Try

r = x /. FindRoot[x^2 == 2, {x, 0.5}]
1.414213562373095
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