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- From: cc3z+@andrew.cmu.edu (Christopher N. Carlson)
- Newsgroups: sci.math.symbolic
- Subject: Help! Quirky MMa Solver
- Message-ID: <4eWc7Y600Uh_A2l1YI@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 07:38:12 GMT
- Organization: Doctoral student, Architecture, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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- Can anyone explain why variable order makes a difference to the
- Mathematica solver -- why it finds solutions for some orders of
- variables and not for others? Better yet, can anyone suggest a fix or
- workaround?
-
- For example,
-
- Reduce[
- {
- var[1] == 48.02 + var[2],
- var[4] == (-2. + var[3])^2 ,
- (81.3016 + 1.84776 var[2])^2 - (-2. + var[3])^2 == var[2]^2 ,
- -2500. + (50. - var[2])^2 == (-2. + var[3])^2
- },
- variabes
- ]
-
- does not yield solutions for any permutation of variables = {var[1],
- var[2], var[3], var[4]} in which var[3] is the first element.
-
- I'm desperate! Any and all suggestions gratefully received!
-
- --Chris Carlson
-