newbie question, real positive solutions of an equation
Subject: newbie question, real positive solutions of an equation
From: Mario Rodriguez
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 10:31:55 +0100
El jue, 07-12-2006 a las 09:11 +0100, Hugo Coolens escribi?:
> I'm using Maxima to solve some equations, which Maxima does very well.
> Maxima shows me _all_ the roots: positive, negative, zero and
> complex.
> I suppose there must be a method to show only the roots which are
> real and positive. Or maybe it is possible to make Maxima look only for
> the positive ones thus not wasting time looking for complex and negative
> roots?
> Can anyone here tell me how to accomplish this?
To get only real solutions,
realonly:true$
algsys([x^2+x+1],[x]);
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