Re: Examples for use of symbolic toolbox?

[Geordie McBain]

I'm not a regular user of the symbolic toolbox (I normally use the more
specialized packages Maxima or Emacs Calc for symbolic stuff that's too
much for pencil and paper), but I can give you some simple examples of
the functions you mentioned:

octave> symbols
octave> X = sym ("x");
octave> differentiate (Sin (X), X)
ans =

cos(x)
octave> expand ((X+1)*(X+2))
ans =

2.0+x^2+(3.0)*x
octave> collect ((X+1)*(X+2), X)
ans =

2.0+x^2+(3.0)*x
octave> 

Note:
1) call symbols first
2) declare symbols with sym
3) capitalize functions like Sin

Hope that's enough to get you started.

Geordie McBain
www.aeromech.usyd.edu.au/~mcbain


On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 14:12 +0200, Michael Kopp wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> can anyone provide me with some simple examples for the use of the symbolic 
> toolbox from octave-forge (differentiate, expand, collect etc.)? Are there 
> some resources on the web? I am not sure about the syntax, and what I have 
> tried so far either produces meaningless results or seg-faults.
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Michael.
> 
> 
> 
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