On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 3:31 PM, newbie43 <bertwi...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I just installed sage on my linux server and i was wondering if anyone
> could tell me what im doing wrong here with this equation.
>
> The Equation says to factor this
>
> 1/9x^2 -1/6xy^2 + 1/16y^4
>
> the answer they give in the textbook for the above equation is this
>
> (1/3x -1/4y^2)
>
>
> I put the equation into the sage command line like this
>
> x, y = var ('x, y')
>
> factor(1/9*x^2 -1/6*x*y^2 + 1/16*y^4)
>
> the answer i end up with using sage from this command is
> 1/144*(3*y^2 - 4*x)^2Pull the 1/144=1/12^2 inside the other facttor and you get the textbook form above. > > am i calculating this properly from within sage? > any help would be appreciated thanks. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. To post to this group, send email to sage-edu@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-edu+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-edu?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
