1. I have been using Maxima for symbolic computation tasks that arise as part of my research into economics.
2. This usually involves solution of non-linear equations in two to five variables. When reduced to one variable the resulting polynomial is of degree four or lower. However maxima seems to be taking an inordinately long time solving them.
e.g. solve([x^2+a*x+b*y+c*y^2=0,x^2+d*x+e*y+f=0],[x,y]);
When I use Maxima to solve for y in terms of x in the second of the above equations and substitute in the first equation, maxima is able to solve the resulting polynomial immediately.
3. I wish to know whether augmenting my hardware will result in better results as far as my problems are concerned. My current hardware configuration:
a. AMD Athlon 64 5600+ Dual Core Processor 2.8 Ghz
b. 4 GB(=2X2) DDR2 800 RAM Corsair TWIN2X4096-6400C5DHX
c. Asus M2A-VM Motherboard
d. 300 GB Seagate HardDisk.
4. I am using Ubuntu 8.10 32 bit.
5. The Maxima 5.17.0 and WxMaxima 0.8.1 packages I am using are from:http://zeus.nyf.hu/~blahota/linux/
I will be grateful for any views on my problem.
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