On May 1, 2010, at 3:28 AM, Berend Hasselman wrote:



Shant Ch wrote:

I want to solve: x*(3^x)*log(4)-x*log(4/3)-(3^x)+1=0 for x. I used the
following code,

uniroot(function(x) x*(3^x)*log(4)-x*log(4/3)-(3^x)+1, lower = -2, upper =
2, tol = 0.001 )

While using this I am getting the following error. Can anyone please help
me out.
Error in uniroot(function(x) x * (3^x) * log(4) - x * log(4/3) - (3^x) +
:   f() values at end points not of opposite sign.


Try f(-2) and f(2) and you'll see the cause of the error message.
Define your equation as a function

f <- function(x) return(x*(3^x)*log(4)-x*log(4/3)-(3^x)+1)

and do

curve(f,from=-2,to=2)

curve(f,from=-.1,to=.1)

and draw your conclusions.


Try optimize instead.

--
David.



Berend
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