Equivalences. Re: Checking equivilence of equalities



On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 11:37:10AM -0500, Gerd Kortemeyer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Feb 8, 2012, at 11:31 AM, Jaime Villate wrote:
> 
> > 
> > In some sense in this second case you are also solving the equations and comparing them:
> > 
> > (%i1) solve(f+4=g+6, f);
> > (%o1) [f = g + 2]
> > (%i2) solve(f-2=g, f);
> > (%o2) [f = g + 2]
> > 
> > And again, this second example worked because we were able to find the solution.
> 
> I agree. That's what I ended up doing for the LON-CAPA integration:
> 
> http://www.math.utexas.edu/pipermail/maxima/2012/027556.html
> 
> Works well,

Thanks for all of your replies.

I think I can figure something out using solve()

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Edd Barrett

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