On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 1:04 AM, sundar <atisunda...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello > > I am newbie to sagemath. I have windows 8 and sage version is 6.4.1. I am > running it inside virtualbox. > I was reading some thing about solving equations on sage website at > http://www.sagemath.org/doc/reference/calculus/sage/symbolic/relation.html > > At one point author is trying to demonstrate the use of optional keywords > for the "solve" > He is solving equation > > solve(abs(1-abs(1-x)) == 10, x) > > When evaluated this gives > > [abs(abs(x - 1) - 1) == 10] > > But when the input is modified a little as > > solve(abs(1-abs(1-x)) == 10, x, to_poly_solve=True) > > sage gives correct result as > [x == -10, x == 12] > > > So why does it not work in the first case ? I didn't understand this use of > keyword to_poly_solve. >
Some documentation of maxima's to_poly_solve command is on http://maxima.sourceforge.net/docs/manual/de/maxima_75.html, about 3/4th down the page. > Please help > sundar > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-support" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
