Fun little math problem

[Tugdual]

(05-10-2016 08:22 PM)Gerson W. Barbosa Wrote:  

(05-10-2016 06:58 PM)Tugdual Wrote:  I could NUM.SLV it but no chance with CAS on the 50g, keeps saying "not exact system" whatever this means...

What are your initial guesses? Starting with [1. 1.] the answers are found in 23 seconds. [0. 0.] gives me "- Error: Negative Underflow".

Gerson.

I used [5 5] and it does work for NUM.SLV but the error is returned with the standard SOLVE.

(05-10-2016 08:25 PM)Massimo Gnerucci Wrote:  Do you really need a calc for this one?

Why not? This is kind of a cal forum here...