I cheated - rearranging the equation to give things like x = y + xy didn't really help, so I tried slotting in values of 0, ±1 and ±100 for x to get the general shape of the curve. When the absolute value of x is large y tends towards -1, when x is 0 y is 0 and there's a discontinuity at x = 1, where y effectively goes from plus to minus infinity.
This, of course, didn't help solve the beastie at all, so I tried sticking it in a spreadsheet and graphing it, then zooming in to give:
It is a cheat, and there's no doubt far better software for doing it with than Excel, but when the tool I've got's a hammer....
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Date: 2003-05-21 03:44 am (UTC)This, of course, didn't help solve the beastie at all, so I tried sticking it in a spreadsheet and graphing it, then zooming in to give:
It is a cheat, and there's no doubt far better software for doing it with than Excel, but when the tool I've got's a hammer....