beginner question



HI,

On 5/16/06, Ranjit Chacko <rchacko at clarku.edu> wrote:
>
> I'm just starting to play with maxima in sage and I need some help
> getting something simple to work.
>
> I just want to solve the following
>
>         gamma((b + 1)/b) = 73/83
>
> for the variable b.
>
> What maxima commands do I need to get a value for b?



I don't know  some command to solve this  equation  directly, well solve and
linsolve don't work to this kind equations. However you can try some as:

(%i1) for i:0.01 step 0.01 thru 5 do(print(is(float(gamma((i+1)/i)) 
float(73/83))));

or

(%i1) for i:0.01 step 0.01 thru 5 do(print(float(gamma((i+1)/i)) 
float(73/83)));

Is a way to aproximmate the answer numerically.


Bye,

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