On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Robert Dodier <robert.dod...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mar 26, 10:58 pm, Ondrej Certik <ond...@certik.cz> wrote: > >> So it seems Maxima can't do it. > > There has been recent work on the Lambert W function > which is part of the solution. I don't know if any solve > function can take advantage of that yet. If you are > interested feel free to take it up on the Maxima mailing list.
I am too busy, sorry. But if you want to implement it, it's really simple, you just parse the expression for x*exp(-x) and return the a*LambertW(b) for correct constants a, b. Ondrej --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---