Thanks for your answers, it really helped !
Laure
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"W F" <amzoti at gmail.com>
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Re: [Maxima] Solving polynomials with Maxima ?
Maybe the last file was too large.
Here is the real solution - but there are two imaginary ones too.
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 3:19 PM, W F <amzoti at gmail.com> wrote:
I also solved it in Mathematica and added a jpg file of the output.
It looks like there us a real and two imaginary solutions.
Not sure that helps.
~A
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 3:16 PM, Richard Fateman <fateman at cs.berkeley.edu>
wrote:
Your "polynomial" is of degree 3 in x^(1/2).
I suggest you make the change of variables t=x^(1/2) and solve
a*t^3-b*t^2+c*t-d=0.
This can be solved for t by solve(......,t);
then take the square root of the answer. This will give you 6 solutions (+
and - sqrt).
I hope this helps.
(The symbolic solution to a cubic like this is generally very complicated
and not of much use.)
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Subject: Solving polynomials with Maxima ?
Dear all,
I am trying to solve a polynomial using Maxima, but I cannot get an
explicit answer. My polynomial is of the following form:
x^(3/2) a - x b + x^(1/2) c - d =0, where a,b,c and d are composed of
several variables, but are not of interest.
So, I would like to be able to solve this polynomial (I am not a
mathematician, but I think solving such a polynomial is feasible using a
mathematical software, no ?) using Maxima to get to an answer of the form
x=f(a,b,c,d) and not x=f(a,b,c,d,x), as I now get using the command
"solve" (i.e, the answer I am given is not explicit).
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