A variety of maxima queries



Daniel Dalton <daniel.dalton47 at gmail.com> writes:

> Hi Leo, 
>
> This is exactly what I wanted! thank you. 
>
> Is there any problem to set imin =-1000 and imax=1000 in the code and
> then run this function? It appears it'll only output solutions within
> the domain specified in square brackets. I suppose the only disadvantage
> to this is additional processing time, so maybe I should choose more
> sensible values. 

Hi Daniel,
I'm happy to help.

The function solve_in_domain will only return solutions in the doman you
specify, that is correct. I ran it with imin=-100 and imax=100 and it
was a bit slow, but I use a 4 year old netbook, so I'm pretty sure that
on a bit more powerful hardware it should be fine to set those bounds to
+/-1000.

>
>> 
>> Note the code will barf on solutions that have more than one arbitrary
>> parameter. I don't know how often that will arise for your problems.
>
> Ok. In most cases it seems to be working really well, but I guess I'll
> just need to keep doing questions and see where it might fail.
>
> Anyway for the majority of cases it appears to work great, so it'll
> definitely save me lots of time. 
>
> Thank you very much for this! 
>
> Dan
>

Dan, I know you are busy preparing for exams. When you have some free
time, I wonder if you would add something to the Maxima wiki page about
how you use Maxima. I am sure that there are mathematics
teachers/lecturers who would benefit from this knowledge.

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