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- Subject: Re: [FUN] CodeGolf: solve equation x^x=C
- From: Albert Chan <albertmcchan@...>
- Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2019 12:11:23 -0400
> On Jun 28, 2019, at 9:24 AM, Albert Chan <albertmcchan@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Had we use a higher guess, say 4, we would have c > 16
Example, x^x = c = 15.8, guess x0 = 4, iterations diverges:
x1 = log(c,x0) = 1.9909
x2 = log(c,x1) = 4.0081
x3 = log(c,x2) = 1.9880
x4 = log(c,x3) = 4.0167 ...
c > e^e work only if guess x0 = e
