Posted by sam on Sunday, October 2, 2011 at 5:12pm.
2 cos(2x) never gets out of the range [-2,2]
So, whenever |x+1| > 2, there are no solutions.
That means all solutions are in [-3,1]
A little Newton-Raphson should work nicely here, or a bisection method.
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