[R] Solving 100th order equation

[Duncan Murdoch]

Shubha Vishwanath Karanth wrote:
> To apply uniroot I don't even know the interval values... Does numerical methods help me? Or any other method?
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How about plotting the function?  If you write it as f(x) = x^100 - ... 
- 6*x - 4000, then clearly f(0) is negative, and large enough x will be 
positive.  Just find
out what "large enough" means (it depends on the ...) and use that to 
start uniroot().

Duncan Murdoch
> Thanks and Regards,
> Shubha
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> From: Duncan Murdoch [mailto:murdoch at stats.uwo.ca] 
> Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2008 5:08 PM
> To: Shubha Vishwanath Karanth
> Subject: Re: [R] Solving 100th order equation
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> Shubha Vishwanath Karanth wrote:
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>> Hi R,
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>> I have a 100th order equation for which I need to solve the value for x. Is there a package to do this?
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>> For example my equation is:
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>> (x^100 )- (2*x^99) +(10*x^50)+.............. +(6*x ) = 4000
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>> I have only one unknown value and that is x. How do I solve for this?
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> uniroot() will find one root.  If you want all of them, I don't know 
> what is available.
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> Duncan Murdoch
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