On Thursday, December 5, 2013 6:04:45 AM UTC-5, Andrew wrote: > > > > On Thursday, 5 December 2013 10:35:00 UTC+1, Daniel Krenn wrote: >> >> Am 2013-12-05 09:30, schrieb Andrew: >> >> Thanks, but as I wrote, I want a symbolic solution. >> >> In particular, I wonder how I get the solution 0. >> >> Sorry, I'm confused. Since you mentioned finding 0 as a particular > (numeric) solution I thought that this was what you wanted. Apologies if I > am missing something obvious, but I don't understand how a symbolic > solution can include zero. > > Is this what you want: > sage: f=x^2-16*sin(x) > sage: f.solve(x) > [x == -4*sqrt(sin(x)), x == 4*sqrt(sin(x))] > > Presumably Maxima can't handle this one. Did you try the `to_poly_solve` options?
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