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Re: "Quick and dirty" Solve[]

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  • Subject: [mg108600] Re: "Quick and dirty" Solve[]
  • From: DrMajorBob <btreat1 at austin.rr.com>
  • Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 04:23:11 -0500 (EST)

If it's negative, increasing, and goes to zero at Infinity... it has no  
roots.

Bobby

On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 05:03:00 -0500, guerom00 <guerom00 at gmail.com> wrote:

> FindInstance[] doesn't help...
> For what it's worse, I know how my function f(x) behaves. It is always
> negative, increasing and goes to zero when x goes to infinity.
> A kind of root finding method based on the bisection method e.g.
> should do the trick...
>


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