Solving equation
On May 1, 2010, at 3:28 AM, Berend Hasselman wrote:
Shant Ch wrote:
I want to solve: x*(3^x)*log(4)-x*log(4/3)-(3^x)+1=0 for x. I used the following code, uniroot(function(x) x*(3^x)*log(4)-x*log(4/3)-(3^x)+1, lower = -2, upper = 2, tol = 0.001 ) While using this I am getting the following error. Can anyone please help me out. Error in uniroot(function(x) x * (3^x) * log(4) - x * log(4/3) - (3^x) + : f() values at end points not of opposite sign.
Try f(-2) and f(2) and you'll see the cause of the error message. Define your equation as a function f <- function(x) return(x*(3^x)*log(4)-x*log(4/3)-(3^x)+1) and do curve(f,from=-2,to=2) curve(f,from=-.1,to=.1) and draw your conclusions.
Try optimize instead.
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