Re: Log Error ( ? )
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- Subject: [mg78945] Re: [mg78883] Log Error ( ? )
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 06:07:33 -0400 (EDT)
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Umm...
Log[x-1]-2 = 0
is equivalent to x = 1+E^2, and N[1+E^2] gives 8.38906.
Only "bug" is in your thinking the intercept should be 101.
Larry wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I had a question about something I found in Mathematica 5.2... I was plotting Log[x-1]-2 with x = {0,10} and y = {-10,5} and strangely found that the graph crossed the x-axes at approximately x == 8 ...
>
> It should be 101 of course, but it seemed like 8. Then I did an Nsolve with the equation set to 0, and low and behold got an answer x == 8.38906.
>
> Is this a bug in mathematica or am I missing something here?
>
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