The root- finder at work – HP 39g+ User Manual

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Solve aplet

7-7

If Solve could not find a solution, you will see one of the
following two messages.

H I N T

It is important to check the information relating to the solve
process. For example, the solution that the Solve aplet finds is
not a solution, but the closest that the function gets to zero.
Only by checking the information will you know that this is
the case.

The Root-
Finder at work

You can watch the process of the root-finder calculating and
searching for a root. Immediately after pressing

TPGW@—

to start

the root-finder, press any key except

>21@. You will see two

intermediate guesses and, to the left, the sign of the expression
evaluated at each guess. For example:

+ 2 2.219330555745
– 1 21.31111111149

You can watch as the root-finder either finds a sign reversal or
converges on a local extrema or does not converge at all. If
there is no convergence in process, you might want to cancel
the operation (press

>21@) and start over with a different initial

guess.

Message

Condition

Bad Guess(es)

The initial guess lies outside the
domain of the equation. Therefore,
the solution was not a real number or
it caused an error.

Constant?

The value of the equation is the same
at every point sampled.

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