Programming Challenge: a classic trigonometry problem

[RMollov]

(01-06-2014 01:40 AM)Gerson W. Barbosa Wrote:  Or RMollov's. Hopefully no copyright infringement here :-)

BTW the HP35s despite it's uselessness deals pretty well with this problem. After inputting the EQN:

SQRT(A^2 - X^2) - C / (1 - C / SQRT(B^2 - X^2))

and firing up SOLVE for X, it nicely asks for A, C & B and comes up with the answer in about a second or two.

Cheers,