I have been playing with graphs until made a nice equation
$$\log_\sqrt[34]{2} x = 4x^4-3x^3-2x^2+x$$
The real answers are 1 and 2. But how to solve it? And is it possible to stretch it to complex values?
I'm relatively new to math as such, so would appreciate as much explanations as possible.
I'm also pretty sure that you'd need to use the product log to solve it. I tried to simplify it and got
$$34\frac{\ln x}{\ln 2} = x(x-1)(4x^2+x-1)$$
You can at least have a very good approximation of it.
Multiplied by $x$, the first derivative of $\text{(rhs - lhs)}$ is $$16 x^4-9 x^3-4 x^2+x-\frac{34}{\log(2)}$$ which can be solved using radicals. Converted to decimals, its positive zero is $$x_*=1.539220361840668443650\cdots$$ The second derivative test shows that it corresponds to a maximum.
Since we already needed to solve a quartic equation, expanding $$\text{(rhs - lhs)}=f(x)=x(x-1)(4x^2+x-1)-\frac{34}{\log (2)}\, \log(x)$$ around $x_*$ to fourth order, the two real approximate zero's are $$x_1=0.998345 \qquad \text{and} \qquad x_2=1.999688$$