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- From: petry@runners.math.washington.edu (David Petry)
- Subject: Re: Mma Solve[] oddity (a much shorter version)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug23.215353.3637@u.washington.edu>
- Keywords: Solve, oddity
- Sender: news@u.washington.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: University of Washington, Mathematics, Seattle
- References: <28914@option.GBA.NYU.EDU>
- Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 21:53:53 GMT
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- In article <28914@option.GBA.NYU.EDU> jcao@option.GBA.NYU.EDU (Jingbin Cao) writes:
- >The following log documents some weired Solve[] oddities. They are:
- >
- > 1. Solve[] cannot find roots in some cases, at least not within
- > reasonable period of time. But if you divide the equations
- > by something, Solve[] finds some roots!
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- [long transcript deleted]
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- Here's a simple example of what Jingbin Cao is getting at (I think):
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- eqs = { a*x*y + b*x + c*y ==0, d*x*y + e*x + f*y + g == 0}
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- Solve[ eqs, {x,y}]
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- Mathematica 2. seems to be unable to solve the above equations, but if we
- divide out the "a" and "d", so that
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- eqs = { x*y + b*y + c*x == 0, x*y + e*x + f*y + g == 0}
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- then Mathematica gets the answer right away.
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- A frustrating deficiency!
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- David Petry
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