beginner questions: return on Maxima console and working with implicit functions
Subject: beginner questions: return on Maxima console and working with implicit functions
From: Volker van Nek
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 13:53:16 +0200
It is possible to install Maxima 5.28 on Ubuntu Precise.
The easiest way to do this is to add the debian sid repository in synaptic.
deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian unstable main
Add this repository to synaptic, reload the sources, install gnuplot, your
favourite Lisp (e.g. gcl) and Maxima, deactivate debian sid and reload
again.
If you are not familiar with that procedure I can give some help.
Volker van Nek
2012/9/28 Dan <vi5u0-maxima at yahoo.co.uk>
> On Fri, 28 Sep 2012, Volker van Nek wrote:
>
> (%i5) load(to_poly_solve);
>>
>> Loading maxima-grobner $Revision: 1.6 $ $Date: 2009-06-02 07:49:49 $
>> (%o5) "/usr/local/share/maxima/5.28.**0/share/to_poly_solve/to_poly_**
>> solve.mac"
>> (%i6) to_poly_solve(eqn, y);
>>
>> (%o6) %union([y = lambert_w(%e^-x)])
>>
>
> Ivo is on Ubuntu Precise, the Maxima version in which is 5.24.0. I think
> that, in Maxima versions that early, the package that one loads is called
> "topoly_solver", not "to_poly_solve". (I also don't think those earlier
> versions of the package can get the solution in terms of the Lambert W
> function).
>
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