Kent: Thanks, I wasn't aware of the rhs function in maxima. Ken
On Wednesday, April 3, 2013 3:42:12 PM UTC-4, Kent Morrison wrote: > > > > On Tuesday, April 2, 2013 2:58:43 PM UTC-7, Ken Levasseur wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I've been trying to solve recurrence relations and managed to find the >> solve_rec in maxima. For example, when I evaluate >> >> sol=maxima('solve_rec(a[n+2]+a[n+1]-2*a[n]=0,a[n],a[0]=1,a[1]=3)') >> >> the value of sol is >> >> a[n]=(-2)^(n+1)/3+5/3 >> >> >> >> Now what I'd like to do is define a Sage function that matches this >> output. I haven't been about to do so. Anyone know how? >> >> Ken Levasseur >> UMass Lowell >> >> >> You can define a Sage function by grabbing the right hand side of sol > > a(n) = maxima('rhs(sol)') > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-edu+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-edu@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-edu?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.