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