Does ODE do anything?



desolve does do something, but not "ode". I tested it on a few problems and 
it seems useful.

"ode" on the other hand doesn't even seem to exist outside the documentation. 
I suspect this is another "bug". 

Le 15 Mars 2002 14:50, James Amundson a écrit :
> It does something:
>
> (C2) desolve('diff(y(x),x)=y(x),y(x));
> 					      x
> (D2) 			        y(x) = y(0) %E
>
> I don't know how much you can expect from it, however.
>
> --Jim
>
> On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 15:12, Daniel Lemire wrote:
> > I tried to solve diff. equations using ode... doesn't seem very useful...
> > does it work at all?
> >
> > The proper way seems to do
> >
> >  desolve('DIFF(Y(X),X)=Y(X)/(X+sqrt(X*Y)),Y(X));
> >
> > whereas the documentation points to
> >
> > Info from file /usr/local/info/maxima.info:
> >  - Fonction: ODE (equation,y,x)
> >      a pot-pourri of Ordinary Differential solvers combined in such a
> >      way as to attempt more and more difficult methods as each fails.
> >      For example, the first attempt is with ODE2, so therefore, a user
> >      using ODE can assume he has all the capabilities of ODE2 at the
> >      very beginning and if he has been using ODE2 in programs they will
> >      still run if he substitutes ODE (the returned values, and calling
> >      sequence are identical).  In addition, ODE has a number of user
> >      features which can assist an experienced ODE solver if the basic
> >      system cannot handle the equation.  The equation is of the same
> >      form as required for ODE2 (which see) and the y and x are
> >      dependent and independent variables, as with ODE2.  For more
> >      details, do PRINTFILE(ODE,USAGE,SHARE); .
> > (D14)                                FALSE
> > (C15)
> >
> > while admittedly desolve is also in the documentation.
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