On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 9:16 PM, Ondrej Certik <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 9:09 PM, limist <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi Ondrej, >> >> The variable to solve for is x, not x_mean or x_max, both of which are >> constants between 0.05 and 0.9. >> >> It is a nonlinear, implicit equation - so is it the case that sympy >> can't deal with solving such an equation? > > Do you mean symbolically? No, it currently can't. But I don't know how > to solve it on a paper either --- if you know, please tell me and we > can then think how to implement it.
Seems to me the result could be maybe expressed in terms of the LambertW function: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambert%27s_W Ondrej --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
