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Symja fails to solve to bases of powers if exponent is rational
Describe the bug
Symja's Solve
function fails to solve powers to their base expression if the exponent is a rational number.
To Reproduce
Example input Symja input expression:
>> Solve(100==x^2.5,x)
Error result:
{}
Expected behavior Something like
10^(4/5) or ~6.30957344
More complex examples are
>> Solve(100 == x^2.5 + x^0.5,x)
>> Solve(100 == x^10.5+x^3.2,x)
For example Wolfram-Alpha can solve all three of these equations and plotting the RHS, there is clearly a solution.
Screenshots
This may also be a problem in finding the "best performing" method or "starting-point" for FindRoot
:
- https://github.com/axkr/symja_android_library/blob/master/symja_android_library/doc/functions/FindRoot.md