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- From: scavo@cie.uoregon.edu (Tom Scavo)
- Subject: Re: Help needed
- Message-ID: <1992Oct9.200123.19191@nntp.uoregon.edu>
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- Organization: University of Oregon Campus Information Exchange
- References: <u67csB1w165w@quest.UUCP> <1b3tpbINNmau@function.mps.ohio-state.edu>
- Date: Fri, 9 Oct 92 20:01:23 GMT
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- >In article <u67csB1w165w@quest.UUCP> srhqla!quest!kdq writes:
- >
- >>If someone would be so kind as to solve for (i), or look up the
- >>equation, or whatever, and respond by email, I would be eternally
- >>grateful (well, a long time, anyway). I ask for email since this site
- >>does not receive sci.math. Thanks in advance.
- >>
- >> i
- >>m = p * ------------
- >> -n
- >> 1 - (i + 1)
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- In article <1b3tpbINNmau@function.mps.ohio-state.edu> edgar@function.mps.ohio-state.edu (Gerald Edgar) writes:
- >This answer (namely there is no closed-form solution, but it can
- >be computed iteratively) should be in the FAQ for sci.math.
-
- A reference would be:
-
- J. Mathews and S.T. Tan (1990). Some interesting
- fixed points. _Math. Mag._ 63(4), 263--269.
-
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- Tom Scavo
- scavo@cie.uoregon.edu
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