Hello!
Justin Harford <blindstein at gmail.com> writes:
> I am doing calculations to find solution concentrations in chemical
> equilibria. Some of this involves work solving cubics, which I am
> finding yield a lot of imaginary numbers. Is there perhaps a way to
> make maxima only give the real roots of a cubic, or any other
> polynomial for that matter? They really just get in the way when
> dealing with real processes.
If you need solving cubics, you're doing something wrong most probably.
There's another way. If you're doing your homework, find it, it is
general mistake of chem. students during analytical and physical chem.
courses.
In any way, using _symbolic_ math. package is wrong for the task.
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