17 What does it mean to “solve” an equation?
A test question answered in desperation. This chapter is also about finding x. Like the example above, we may “find x” in a way other than what your math teacher had in mind
17.1 Another break from traditional numerical methods
Before attempting full-scale applications that can be solved with uboxes, we will need ubox versions of some basic equation-solving tools like you might find in a software library. There is a mountain of literature on sophisticated methods for solving equations, but the ubox approach is quite unlike any of the classical methods. For one thing, ubox methods are not sophisticated, ...
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