Re: Cannot use ldegree() on symbolic expressions with non-integer exponents

[Martin Helm]

Am Samstag, 27. März 2010 17:23:23 schrieb Jason Lewis:
> Thanks for the reply.
> 
> It appears that ^ doesn't like 'int32' as an argument, and so it
> produces an error.
> 
> I've run into this problem while trying to have octave solve a system
> of symbolic equations to model the output of an electronic circuit
> (something I used to do with Matlab). I'm a bit disappointed, but I'm
> willing to concede that I may be the problem.
> 
>  - J
> 

What about using a CAS for this. The reason I do not use the symbolic package 
is simply that I use a full CAS (in my case maxima) whenever I need to do 
symbolic calculations. Numerical computations are of course much slower in 
maxima, but it depends on the rest of what you do if this will be a problem or 
not.

Nevertheless you should post your question on the octave forge mailing list 
(it is a problem with a package from octave forge not an octave problem). 
Maybe the solution is absolutely trivial and I simply do not know it.

Seems there are not many people hanging around here using this package.

Btw one last shoot in the dark, does it accept something like
y = sym("x^2 + 9") ?

- mh