Is it always a coin toss whether a computer algebra system can solve a log 
equation?
Should I not expect to make a career out of using Sage to solve nonlinear 
equations?

cs

On Sunday, July 16, 2017 at 3:41:42 PM UTC-5, Emmanuel Charpentier wrote:
>
> Wups... My bad : I wasn't really awake, it seems...
>
> Anyway, as suggested by Dominique, you can do :
>
> sage: E=log(y) == C + log(x) + log(y-1);E
> log(y) == C + log(x) + log(y - 1)
> sage: S=E.solve(x)[0].solve(y);S
> [y == x*e^C/(x*e^C - 1)]
> sage: bool(E.subs(S).expand_log())
> True
>
> which checks.
>
> Again, sorry for the noise...
>
> --
> Emmanuel Charpentier
>
>
> Le dimanche 16 juillet 2017 18:29:46 UTC+2, Chris Seberino a écrit :
>>
>> Emmanuel
>>
>> Thank you for your reply but you solved a DIFFERENT equation.  Notice 
>> mine has an x variable in it.  
>> I can get your's to work but not mine.
>>
>> cs
>>
>

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