Subject: seeking help with solving implicit equation
From: Stavros Macrakis
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 14:59:40 -0500
On Jan 25, 2008 2:06 PM, Rogers, Raymond <raymond-rogers at idexx.com> wrote:
> If you expand the log
> 1/sqrt(f) -log(sqrt(f)) = g(e,D,Re)
> which looks to be solvable as Lambert's function.
>
> Even if that is true, Maxima doesn't know anything about the Lambert W
function: it doesn't use it to solve equations, doesn't know anything about
its simplification, and doesn't know how to evaluate it numerically....
-s