TIB: RE: TI-89 Solve question


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TIB: RE: TI-89 Solve question




When I type in that exact string, I get x = 0.0000024.  In exact, the answer
is x=-13/(10000000*ln(7/12)).  I'm using AMS 2.03.

Jesse

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ti-basic@lists.ticalc.org
[mailto:owner-ti-basic@lists.ticalc.org]On Behalf Of Noah R Deneau
Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2000 8:41 PM
To: ti-basic@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: TIB: TI-89 Solve question



For some reason I when I try to solve this equation:

5=12*(1-e^((-1.3E-6)/x))

For x, using "solve(5=12*(1-e^((-1.3E-6)/x)),x)"
I get x = 0

I think the real answer is something like x = 2.4E-6
I'm in float 12 mode; I get x = 0 for auto or approx. (exact gives an
overflow error)

Any ideas?

-Noah Deneau



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