Justin Harford wrote:
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> Justin Harford
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> On Jan 24, 2008, at 7:35 AM, Dan Soendergaard wrote:
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>> 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?
>>
>>
%i12) find_root(sin(x)+x-2.5*x - 1.5,x,-3,3);
(%o12) - 1.663786360949127
HTH,
-sen