Re: Solving equation with undetermined exogenous real number parameter

[Michael Rudolph]

Hi Joe,

I also tried using maxima, but it doesn't support nonlinear
constrained optimization, which is available within octave. I'm
currently using octave-2.1.73.

Michael

2006/7/13, Joe Koski <address@hidden>:
> on 7/12/06 5:47 PM, Michael Rudolph at address@hidden wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Suppose an equation like that;
> >
> > x^2=1+t
> >
> > 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?
> >
> > 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
>
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