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Re: Problems solving the following equation


From: Leo Butler
Subject: Re: Problems solving the following equation
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:38:06 +0000 (GMT)
User-agent: Alpine 1.10 (DEB 962 2008-03-14)


On Thu, 10 Dec 2009, Julien Martin wrote:

< Hello,
< I am having problems solving the following equation:
< (r*32000)/(1-(1+r)^-6)-1810=0
< I tried with fsolve and it tells me that A^b, A must be square.
< Any idea?
< Thanks in advance,
< Julien.
< 
< 

The first argument to fsolve is a function, and you can use an anonymous
function. Try

fsolve(@(r) (r*32000)/(1-(1+r)^-6)-1810,1)

ans = -0.24226

Leo

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