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Re: time for a change

2008-07-28 by arthurford4142

--- In 50g@yahoogroups.com, "arthurford4142" <arthurford4142@...> wrote:
 
> The example equation was 2x^2-5x+2=0. Solve gave the answers of 1/2, 2.
> nSolve on both CAS and non-CAS versions give just 0.5, not the second
> answer.

Oops
nSolve(2x^2-5x+2=0,x=1.5) does give the correct second answer of 2. I
was first incorrectly trying to get the second answer with constraints
rather than "guess" as is shown on the bottom syntax line when nSolve
is highlighted in the Catalog.

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