> For a symbolic solution, I don';t know anything better than to
differentiate the function and solve for a root.
For solve(f(x) = 0, x);
Is there any way to limit the x to a certain domain, i.e. I could limit
it to [0, %pi/2]?
Thanks!
-= Dave
-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Dodier [mailto:robert.dodier at gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 11:22 AM
To: David Neubelt
Cc: maxima at math.utexas.edu
Subject: Re: [Maxima] Finding maximum value in a domain
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:13 AM, David Neubelt <david at readyatdawn.com>
wrote:
> 1) Is there any way to find the maximum of error(x) on a domain?
For a symbolic solution, I don';t know anything better than to
differentiate the function and solve for a root.
For a numerical solution, there is the lbfgs function
(although that might be overkill in this context).
> 2) Is there a way to take samples of a function over a domain and
either
> output to a list or possibly a file?
Try this: makelist(foo(x0 + i*dx), i, 1, 10); with suitable x0 and x0
values.
> 3) Other then the documentation is there any recommended readings,
i.e. a
> book or a something else that is very beneficial to learning maxima?
There's a lot of tutorial info on the documentation page:
http://maxima.sourceforge.net/documentation.html
Hope this helps,
Robert Dodier