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Re: Exact roots of transcedental functions

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• Subject: [mg84069] Re: Exact roots of transcedental functions
• From: Yaroslav Bulatov <yaroslavvb at gmail.com>
• Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2007 05:48:37 -0500 (EST)
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On Dec 7, 3:58 am, "Ted Ersek" <ted.er... at tqci.net> wrote:
> Exact roots of transcedental functionsThe notebook athttp://library.wolfram.com/infocenter/Conferences/7010/
> Talks about how the first argument of Root[_,_] can be a pure
> transcendental function, not just a polynomial.
> It sounds like this is a new feature in Mathematica 6, but I can't find
> any mention of such a feature in the documentation.
> Is this capability in Mathematica 6, or in some version to come out in
> the future? I can't see for myself because I don't have Mathematica 6.
>
> Thanks,
>
>    Ted Ersek

That feature doesn't seem to be in Mathematica 6.0.1, I get
"Reduce::nsmet: This system cannot be solved with the methods \
available to Reduce" message