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- From: soeren@cse.ucsc.edu (Soren Soe)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: x 2^x = 2^n ?
- Message-ID: <17gnuqINNr7k@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 20:01:30 GMT
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- Can anyone tell me what `x' is in this equation:
-
- x 2^x = 2^n
-
- Is there a general solution, or do I have to approximate `x' to something like
- x = n - lg n + a_little_more ?
- In fact I can do with an approximation to x, iff
- floor(x) <= app(x) <= x
-
- I need the "floor" of `x' to solve the following summation, where k
- would be equal to floor(x):
-
- i=n-1
- SUM min(2^i, 2^2^(n-i))
- i=0
-
- i=k i=n-1
- = SUM 2^i + SUM 2^2^(n-i)
- i=0 i=k+1
-
- --soeren
-
- Soren Soe,
- soeren@ce.ucsc.edu
-