Solving equation with exp

• Subject: Solving equation with exp
• From: Poul Riis
• Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 15:45:07 +0200

Maxima gives a very disappointing answer to the following:

solve(exp(x)-exp(x/2)=0,x);

Is there a trick to make maxima do better?
I cannot find an 'expcontract' command corresponding to 'logcontract'?

Yours,
Poul Riis
Denmark

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