[Help-gsl] One dimensional root of an equation

[Rajil Saraswat]

Hi,
  I am trying to solve a quadratic equation given as follows:

y=441682.9251*(-1.842052048*x+0.3941686334e-2)/((-x+0.2e-3)*(-525.00*x+2.716111111))-242538.2570*(1.953506658*x+0.7436592362e-3)/(x*(525.00*x+1.361111111));

I tried maple which gave three roots to me  {x = -0.001365774428}, {x =
0.00003685022686}, {x = 0.002880307005} out of which the root i am looking
for is x = 0.00003685022686.

So far so good, next i tried gsl with the brent algorithm as i wanted to
write a C program for interfacing purposes. However the program failed with
the error:

gsl: brent.c:57: ERROR: function not continuous
Default GSL error handler invoked.
Aborted


Is there any way (gsl or otherwise) i can solve this equation?  Here is the
gsl code for reference.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <gsl/gsl_errno.h>
#include <gsl/gsl_math.h>
#include <gsl/gsl_roots.h>



struct quadratic_params
  {
      double a, b, c;
        };

double
quadratic (double x, void *params)
{
  struct quadratic_params *p
    = (struct quadratic_params *) params;


const double y0=
441682.9251*(-1.842052048*x+0.3941686334e-2)/((-x+0.2e-3)*(-525.00*x+2.716111111))-242538.2570*(1.953506658*x+0.7436592362e-3)/(x*(525.00*x+1.361111111));


  return y0;
}



int
main (void)
{

  int status;
  int iter = 0, max_iter = 100;
  const gsl_root_fsolver_type *T;
  gsl_root_fsolver *s;
  double r = 0, r_expected = 0.3685022686e-4;
  double x_lo = 0.0, x_hi =0.0001;
  gsl_function F;
  struct quadratic_params params = {1.0, 0.0, -5.0};

  F.function = &quadratic;
  F.params = &params;

  T = gsl_root_fsolver_brent;
  s = gsl_root_fsolver_alloc (T);
  gsl_root_fsolver_set (s, &F, x_lo, x_hi);

  printf ("using %s method\n",
          gsl_root_fsolver_name (s));

  printf ("%5s [%9s, %9s] %9s %10s %9s\n",
          "iter", "lower", "upper", "root",
          "err", "err(est)");
do
    {
 iter++;
      status = gsl_root_fsolver_iterate (s);
      r = gsl_root_fsolver_root (s);
      x_lo = gsl_root_fsolver_x_lower (s);
      x_hi = gsl_root_fsolver_x_upper (s);
      status = gsl_root_test_interval (x_lo, x_hi,
                                       0, 0.001);

      if (status == GSL_SUCCESS)
        printf ("Converged:\n");

      printf ("%5d [%.7f, %.7f] %.7f %+.7f %.7f\n",
              iter, x_lo, x_hi,
              r, r - r_expected,
              x_hi - x_lo);
    }

  while (status == GSL_CONTINUE && iter < max_iter);
  return status;
}