>>>Please reread my updated answer to your first message. You must either learn for instance Fortran, or wipe the dust of your old algebra skills.
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>>>Did something nice happen to Fortran while I was sleeping? The Fortran I remember couldn't solve an equation. MatLab or Mathematica or some TI calculators have code which can do that. Programming languages, IIRC, can't. They have to be told what to calculate, but they can't solve equations.
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>>I have never studied Fortran in any way, I only assumed that it had some kind of algorithm to convert an equation into something a computer could understand. But if you say that I was mistaken, then I take your words for it.
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>Fortran doesn't have ability to solve math equations by itself.

And sometimes not even with programmer's help :).