Numerical Equation Solving?



Good day, 

I use Maxima for symbolic calculations, since a few months and it works
fine. 
Now I start to enter numerical values and try to get numerical results.
However, I get some small problems when trying to solve equations. 


Example equation, to solve for "w":

	     12
2.1237 = ---------- 
	 !   2	  !
	 !3 w  - 4!


And I get the solution:

 !   2    !   98076
[!3 w  - 4! = -----] 
              17357


Is there something I could do to solve this kind of equations?

Many thanks,
				Goran


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