If you do
solveradcan:true;
solve(g(t)=0,t)
you get 2 solutions.
[t=5*log(-sqrt(5)) t=(5*log(5))/2]
Is that helpful?
RJF
On 3/2/2013 9:20 AM, Emmanuel Charpentier wrote:
> This is inspired by a problem recently posed on the sage-support Google
> mailing list (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/sage-support/
> OvlwzWksSyI).
>
> Let g(t)=%e^-(t/10)-%e^-(t/2) ; we wish to find the t values maximizing g
> (t) (for t>0).
>
> Let's set up :
>
<snip>