$a \in \mathbb{R}$ $f:\mathbb{R} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ $g:\mathbb{R} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ For generic functions $f$ and $g$, how isolate $f(x)$ in the equation below? >$f(x+a)=f(x)+a\times g(x)$ I tried to use [Fourier Transform and Inverse Fourier Transform][1] but looks like this don't work very well. $f(x - a)=$ $e^{-2\pi i a \xi} \hat{f}(\xi)$ $\hat{f}(\xi)=$ $\int_{-\infty}^{\infty}f(x) e^{-2\pi i x\xi}\, dx \quad$ *(Fourier Transform)* I tried [ZTransform][2] too, but again, didn't worked very well. [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourier_transform [2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-transform