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Re: Solving equation with undetermined exogenous real number parameter
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Joe Koski |
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Re: Solving equation with undetermined exogenous real number parameter |
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Wed, 12 Jul 2006 18:32:17 -0600 |
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on 7/12/06 5:47 PM, Michael Rudolph at address@hidden wrote:
> Hi,
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> Suppose an equation like that;
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> x^2=1+t
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> I've always to specify a certain value for t to solve this equation
> for x. But how can this equation be solved in general for x, without
> specifying a fixed value for t?
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> Cheers,
> Michael
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Michael,
I would recommend looking into a application like Maxima
http://maxima.sourceforge.net/
which is designed to do symbolic algebra and calculus. Octave also has some
symbolic functions, but you don't say which machine or version of octave and
octave-forge you are using.
Joe