On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 22:22 +0100, Andrej Vodopivec wrote:
> Barton has added a nice package for solving such equations. You will
> need a recent version of maxima for this to work:
>
> (%i1) load(topoly_solver)$
> (%i2) ea : a/15+sqrt((3-a)^2+1)/10$
> (%i3) to_poly_solve(diff(ea, a), a);
> Assuming that 30*sqrt((3-a)^2+1) # 0
> (%o3) [[a=-(2*sqrt(5)-15)/5]]
If you used "display2d: true", the output was printed wrongly. I have
just submitted a fix (use a carriage return at the end of the
"Assumning..." message).
Regards,
Jaime