Maurizio wrote:
> My 2 cents here:
> why do we keep the "numerical solve" function with a completely
> different name? I know that "find_root" or "roots" make sense, but
> wouldn't just be much better to name them "solve_numerical", or
> anything like putting a postfix after the word "solve"?
> I don't know whether this is generally a good thing to do, but I just
> keep finding it so easy if I do "solve[Tab]" so that ALL the functions
> related to solving equations are shown (both exact and numerical)


Great idea.  We can make an alias:

solve_numerical=find_root

Does find_root take general symbolic expressions (i.e., x==x^2)?


Jason


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Jason Grout


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