Have zeros of order 2 too, so the sign change doesn't help in general, but 
may work for some zeros. Thank you!... 

On Saturday, June 21, 2014 1:21:06 AM UTC-7, Dima Pasechnik wrote:
>
> On 2014-06-21, David Ingerman <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: 
> >  Thank you, that's helpful. Is there a way to get all roots of a Python 
> > function on an interval? 
>
> I never heard of robust procedures for such a task, and doubt they are 
> even possible (think about roots of sin(1/x) on [0,1]). 
> Certainly you can partition the interval into pieces 
> and try finding root in each subinterval where the function has 
> different signs on its ends. 
>
>
>
> scipy has a variety of root-finding methods implemented. You 
> can do 
> sage: import scipy.optimize 
> and then read on 
> sage: scipy.optimize.brentq? 
> (the method called by Sage's find_root) 
>
>
> > 
> > On Friday, June 20, 2014 2:10:38 AM UTC-7, Dima Pasechnik wrote: 
> >> 
> >> On 2014-06-20, David Ingerman <[email protected] <javascript:>> 
> wrote: 
> >> >  Thank you, so what to do for Python function? Matlab had general 
> >> purpose 
> >> > 'optim(f)' if my memory is right... 
> >> 
> >> you can e.g. use find_root(); this is a numerical thing that accepts 
> >> Python functions. Here is an example: 
> >> 
> >> sage: def f(x): 
> >>     return x-cos(x) 
> >>     ....: 
> >> sage: find_root(f,0,1) 
> >> 0.7390851332151559 
> >> sage: 
> >> 
> >> > 
> >> > On Wednesday, June 11, 2014 1:50:10 AM UTC-7, Dima Pasechnik wrote: 
> >> >> 
> >> >> On 2014-06-10, David Ingerman <[email protected] <javascript:>> 
> >> wrote: 
> >> >> >   
> >> >> >  How  to solve([f(x)==0],x) for a function "f(x)" defined in a 
> .sage 
> >> >> file? 
> >> >> > 
> >> >> >  The error message: TypeError: Cannot evaluate symbolic expression 
> to 
> >> a 
> >> >> > numeric value. 
> >> >> 
> >> >> what is f(x) ? 
> >> >> solve() won't work for a Python function, it needs a symbolic 
> >> >> expression, e.g. 
> >> >> 
> >> >> sage: type(sin(x)) 
> >> >> <type 'sage.symbolic.expression.Expression'> 
> >> >> sage: 
> >> >> 
> >> >> > 
> >> >> > Thank you... 
> >> >> > 
> >> >> 
> >> >> 
> >> > 
> >> 
> >> 
> > 
>
>

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