[R] Solving 100th order equation

[Shubha Vishwanath Karanth]

To apply uniroot I don't even know the interval values... Does numerical methods help me? Or any other method?

Thanks and Regards,
Shubha

-----Original Message-----
From: Duncan Murdoch [mailto:murdoch at stats.uwo.ca] 
Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2008 5:08 PM
To: Shubha Vishwanath Karanth
Subject: Re: [R] Solving 100th order equation

Shubha Vishwanath Karanth wrote:
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> I have a 100th order equation for which I need to solve the value for x. Is there a package to do this?
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> For example my equation is:
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> (x^100 )- (2*x^99) +(10*x^50)+.............. +(6*x ) = 4000
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> I have only one unknown value and that is x. How do I solve for this?
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uniroot() will find one root.  If you want all of them, I don't know 
what is available.

Duncan Murdoch
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