Timeline for Inverse of (1+x) ln(1+x) - x
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| Jul 9, 2010 at 13:30 | vote | accept | Nick Harvey | ||
| Jul 9, 2010 at 7:14 | comment | added | Gerry Myerson | Why do you say that writing it in terms of Lambert-W couldn't help anyone? Lambert-W hasn't made it into the high school curriculum yet, but it's incorporated in the major symbolic math engines, which know how to evaluate it, manipulate it, etc. In particular, if what OP wants is estimates, well, it shouldn't be too hard to find useful info on Lambert-W on the web. | |
| Jul 8, 2010 at 17:08 | answer | added | mathphysicist | timeline score: 6 | |
| Jul 8, 2010 at 16:52 | comment | added | Qiaochu Yuan | I don't think there's any reason to expect one. You could try writing it in terms of the Lambert W-function, although I don't see how this could possibly help anybody. You might also try Lagrange inversion: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrange_inversion_theorem | |
| Jul 8, 2010 at 16:42 | history | asked | Nick Harvey | CC BY-SA 2.5 |