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Justin Harford
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On Jan 24, 2008, at 7:35 AM, Dan Soendergaard wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm completely new to Maxima. I use it as a Mathcad replacement in
> Linux which I am truly happy about. Today, I was in class given the
> task to solve the given equation for x,
>
> sin(x) + x = 2.5*x + 1.5
>
> In Maxima I entered,
>
>> solve(sin(x) + x = 2.5*x + 1.5, x);
>
> which gives me,
>
> x = 5 * sin(x) + 7.5
>
> Isn't it possible to solve this equation numerically? I know that I
> should get three results for x since there are three intersection
> points. How do I solve this kind of calculation using Maxima?
>
> --
> Sincerely,
>
> Dan Sondergaard
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