# Solving for the steady states of an ODE model symbolically

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/solving-for-the-steady-states-of-an-ode-model-symbolically/79673
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**Created:** [April 19, 2022, 4:51am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/solving-for-the-steady-states-of-an-ode-model-symbolically/79673 "2022-04-19T04:51:59Z")
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### Author: ![Dragolonth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Dragolonth](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Dragolonth)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2022, 4:51am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/solving-for-the-steady-states-of-an-ode-model-symbolically/79673/1 "2022-04-19T04:51:59Z")

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Hello everyone! I was wondering what the best method would be to solve for the steady states of an ODE model symbolically for any parameter values.

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### Author: ![baggepinnen](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/baggepinnen/32/693_2.png) [@baggepinnen](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/baggepinnen)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2022, 5:01am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/solving-for-the-steady-states-of-an-ode-model-symbolically/79673/2 "2022-04-19T05:01:12Z")

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You could only ever do that for very special problems. The equation 0=f(x) may in general have more than one root, and which one will be the steady-state solution depends on the numeric value of the initial condition.