[Maxima] seeking help with solving implicit equation

Stavros Macrakis macrakis at alum.mit.edu
Fri Jan 25 13:59:40 CST 2008


On Jan 25, 2008 2:06 PM, Rogers, Raymond <raymond-rogers at idexx.com> wrote:

>  If you expand the log
> 1/sqrt(f) -log(sqrt(f)) = g(e,D,Re)
> which looks to be solvable as Lambert's function.
>
> Even if that is true, Maxima doesn't know anything about the Lambert W
function: it doesn't use it to solve equations, doesn't know anything about
its simplification, and doesn't know how to evaluate it numerically....

           -s
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