On Jan 21, 12:27 pm, David Joyner <[email protected]> wrote: > If you are willing to work in maxima, I think the thing to do is to first > load the topoly module but I can't get it to work for me as described > here:http://www.math.utexas.edu/pipermail/maxima/2006/002666.html > Maybe you will have better luck.
It appears Maxima's to_poly doesn't know how to handle 2*x-3 = (2 + sqrt(x+7))^2; the result still has sqrt in it. I've submitted a bug report about that. With a little prodding here' s what to_poly_solve returns (Maxima 5.17.1). load (topoly_solver); to_poly_solve (sqrt (2*x-3) = 2 + sqrt(x + 7), [x]); => [[x = 42]] HTH Robert Dodier --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
