solutions of simple polynomial equations not exact
Subject: solutions of simple polynomial equations not exact
From: Henning Siebel
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 11:06:16 +0000 (UTC)
Hello,
im new to maxima and can't find out how to 'force' maxima finding/printing the
exact solutions of:
a: x^2=2*y$;
b: y^2=x/2$;
This is -among others- what I tried:
solve([a,b],[x,y]), realonly:true;
[[x=1.259921095381759,y=0.79370052770449],[x=0,y=0]]
As the equations are simple, I (still) expect that maxima is capable of
calculating exact solutions... - but how?
Any answers or hints?
Henning