oops. here's the link
RJF
http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/Math128/SOLVEkey.pdf
On 12/23/2012 3:51 PM, Richard Fateman wrote:
> If you haven't seen this explanation of how the HP-34C calculation
> implements "SOLVE", you might enjoy it.
>
> On 12/23/2012 3:42 PM, Richard Hennessy wrote:
>> . My TI-89 calculator can find a and b in most cases. It has a
>> nsolve() command
>