On Thursday, March 15, 2018 at 10:23:44 PM UTC, saad khalid wrote: > > I have to apologize, I gave a slightly incorrect Mathematica code earlier, > the actual code was: > > Solve[ Exp[-2*a*x]-1+4*a*x==0,x]//N > > The earlier code gave the wrong answer. Anyways: > > it could be a different function, which potentially would run much longer, >> by repetitive splitting of the interval >> (I guess that's what Mathematica is doing) >> > > There appear to be 2 main solving functions in Mathematica, "Solve" and > "Reduce," the differences are explained in this well written answer: > > https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/17127/what-is-the-difference-between-reduce-and-solve > > What is the result of such a Mathematica command on an example with >> infinitely many roots given in this thread? > > > > So, the Solve function doesn't find any it seems but it tells you to use > the Reduce function, which I think does give all the solutions. >
OK, that was too easy, as there was an exact symbolic solution. How about solving sin(1/x)==x on [-1,1] instead? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
