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Re: "Quick and dirty" Solve[]

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  • Subject: [mg108618] Re: "Quick and dirty" Solve[]
  • From: Bill Rowe <readnews at sbcglobal.net>
  • Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 04:26:42 -0500 (EST)

On 3/24/10 at 5:03 AM, guerom00 at gmail.com (guerom00) wrote:

>FindInstance[] doesn't help... For what it's worse, I know how my
>function f(x) behaves. It is always negative, increasing and goes to
>zero when x goes to infinity. A kind of root finding method based on
>the bisection method e.g. should do the trick...

Then you might find Ted Ersek's RootSearch package useful. It
can be obtained from Wolfram's web site.



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