Re: Problem with Solve and NSolve
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- Subject: [mg122441] Re: Problem with Solve and NSolve
- From: Alois Steindl <Alois.Steindl at tuwien.ac.at>
- Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2011 07:07:13 -0400 (EDT)
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"V. Williams" <gvicente at gmail.com> writes: > I've recently tried Mathematica 8.0.1, and I've found that it's unable to compute Solve[x^3*Sin[x]==1,x] (and the same with NSolve), which gives an error: > Solve::nsmet: This system cannot be solved with the methods available to Solve > > WolframAlpha solves it without problems, so what's wrong with Mathematica? Hello, Solve tries to give an analytical solution, whereas Wolfram Alpha returns numerical approximations. I am wondering why NSolve doesn't work, but you could try FindRoot. Alois