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A fossilized leaf is analyzed. Unlike standard carbon-14 dating which assumes constant initial concentration C0C_0, the local atmospheric C14C^{14} level at the time of the leaf's death tt years ago is modeled by Cinit(t)=C0(1+0.1sin(omegat))C_{init}(t) = C_0 (1 + 0.1 \\sin(\\omega t)), where C0=100C_0 = 100 ppm, omega=0.001\\omega = 0.001 year1^{-1}, and the decay constant for C14C^{14} is lambda=1.2times104\\lambda = 1.2 \\times 10^{-4} year1^{-1}. If the current C14C^{14} concentration of the fossil is 4040 ppm, which transcendental equation must be solved to find its age tt?