Good day,
I think the "solve" function is broken. I just installed Maxima and
tried solving a few elementary equations. In all cases but the very,
very elementary ones, Maxima is no good, it seems. (See below.)
What am I missing? Surely, Maxima can do this?
[lemire@romeo lemire]$ maxima
GCL (GNU Common Lisp) Version(2.4.0) Wed May 9 12:02:00 CDT 2001
Licensed under GNU Library General Public License
Contains Enhancements by W. Schelter
Maxima 5.6 Wed May 9 12:01:49 CDT 2001 (with enhancements by W. Schelter).
Licensed under the GNU Public License (see file COPYING)
(C1) solve(exp(a*x)= C*exp(b*x),x);
a x
b x %E
(D1) [%E = -----]
C
(C2) solve(log(a*x)=C*log(b*x),x);
LOG(a x)
(D2) [LOG(b x) = --------]
C
(C3) solve(a^x=b^x,x);
x x
(D3) [b = a ]
(C4) solve(m*x+b=y,x);
y - b
(D4) [x = -----]
m
(C5)
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