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Abstract: In this article, simplified and easy-to-work-with equations for the Lambert W-function are derived. This function is widely used to solve equations related to photovoltaic systems. More ...

The preparation of this paper was supported in part by the National Science Foundation through grants G-18974 and G-25224. The author wishes to thank Professor Errett Bishop for much helpful ...

It’s an old joke that there are three kinds of people in the world: those who are good at math and those who aren’t. Tanya Evans, an associate professor in the School of Education and Human ...

Courtney Gibbons is affiliated with the Association for Women in Mathematics and the American Mathematical Society. You might remember learning about the quadratic formula to figure out the solutions ...

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