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Re: Solving non linear equations

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  • Subject: [mg120018] Re: Solving non linear equations
  • From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
  • Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2013 04:18:05 -0500 (EST)
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Please use lower-case letters, such as 'a', instead of upper-case 
letters for names you devise. (To avoid clashes with built-in 
Mathematica names, all of which begin with '$' or else an upper-case 
letter.) Thus you should use for your equation:

  x + 1/(1 + r^x) + a == 0

Are r and a supposed to be real, or would complex values be OK?  What 
range of values do you want for r or for a? 

What makes you think there is a solution? Have you tried plotting. Look, 
e.g., at:

  
Manipulate[Plot[x+1/(1+r^x)+a,{x,-10,10},AxesOrigin->{0,0}],{{r,0},-10,10},{{a,0},-10,10}]


On Mar 3, 2013, at 10:58 PM, Norman Polozka <normanmath at gmail.com> wrote:

>   I want to solve such equation by using mathematica,
>
> Solve[x+1/(1+r^x)+A==0,x]
>
> But it says it can't solve. Any idea of solving such equations?

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