[sage-devel] Re: Strange behaviour of solve...

2009-05-18 Thread Michel
Fantastic. Thanks a lot!!! I had never heard of this "to_poly_solve function". Regards, Michel On May 18, 7:05 pm, Mike Hansen wrote: > Hello Michel, > > On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 2:59 AM, Michel > wrote: > > > var('Q') > > solve(Q*sqrt(Q^2 + 2) - 1,Q) > > > yields > > > [Q == 1/sqrt(Q^2 + 2)

[sage-devel] Re: Strange behaviour of solve...

2009-05-18 Thread Mike Hansen
Hello Michel, On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 2:59 AM, Michel wrote: > > var('Q') > solve(Q*sqrt(Q^2 + 2) - 1,Q) > > yields > > [Q == 1/sqrt(Q^2 + 2)] > > Not what I was looking for! In Sage 4.0 which will be out in a few days, I added support for Maxima's to_poly_solve function which will handle your