Trouble in Solving Equation



Barton Willis <willisb at unk.edu> writes:
> The assignment Rm / Rgeo : a*Rg/Rgeo+b does something, but maybe it
> doesn't do what you think it does.  To read the user documentation for
> assignment, enter ? :.

My copy of the documentation doesn't seem to have any information about
what a statement like

  (%i1) a/b : c/d;

should do. The results are quite surprising to me, at least. Is there
some logic behind them?

Rupert
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