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Yes, I did a quick MATLAB plot of the two and saw the trend that you describe, which again can be surmised from inspection, indeed the 2nd solution is very close to pi/2.

Thanks, I suspected as much. Always nice to be reassured that one isn't missing something obvious.

Hello all Can anybody see a way to analytically find x in the expression: cos(x) = exp(-2x) By inspection x=0 is obvious, and numerically we find x=1.5232 is also a solution, but is there a way to find these values by rearranging the above expression? It's one of those that looks simple...