Here is one thing I find difficult to use about sage: the help system. When in my previous post the symbolic "solve" command failed on me I wanted to use a numeric solve command. So I did
solve? Alas the help page that is returned does not contain a "See also" section. So this didn't work. So I brought up the reference manual but again it was not obvious how to proceed. I typed "numerical" in the Quick Search box only to get a long list of pages that did not seem useful immediately. As an experiment I did the same in maple. I typed ?solve It brought up a nice manpage with a See Also section See Also dsolve - solve an ordinary differential equation (ODE) or system of ODEs, fsolve - solve equations and inequalities using numeric methods, LinearAlgebra[LinearSolve] - solve a linear system A . x = b, pdsolve - solve a partial differential equation (PDE) or system of PDEs, RealDomain - provide a real number context, RootOf - implicit representation for roots of equations, solve/details - detailed information about the solve command, SolveTools - solve a system of algebraic equations using low-level commands I would be very useful is sage did something similar. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
