Re: Newbie Question: Solving for x?
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- Subject: [mg40702] Re: Newbie Question: Solving for x?
- From: "Steven Shippee" <slshippee at attbi.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 04:01:49 -0400 (EDT)
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As another novice user, I would be inclined to answer your question with the following suggestion: Clear[y] \!\(\* RowBox[{"Solve", "[", StyleBox[\(y == \[ExponentialE]\^\(\(-x\^2\)\/2\)\/\@\(2 \[Pi]\), \ x\), FormatType->StandardForm], StyleBox["]", FormatType->StandardForm]}]\) I'm sure there are much more elegant ways to do this, however. I have also found David Park's web site useful, and he has a notebook at URL: http://home.earthlink.net/~djmp/Mathematica.html called StepByStepEquations.nb which is most illustrative for those getting used to Mathematica. Hope this helps. Thanks in advance, Steven Shippee mailto:shippee at jcs.mil (360)-902-5817 "AngleWyrm" <no_spam_anglewyrm at hotmail.com> wrote in message news:b7avu5$qpi$1 at smc.vnet.net... > I have a formula expressing y in terms of x: > > \!\(y = \[ExponentialE]\^\(\(-x\^2\)\/2\)\/\@\(2 \[Pi]\)\) > > How do you make it so that it expresses x in terms of y? > >