On May 15, 7:28 pm, rjf wrote:
> squaring both sides of an equation often produces extraneous
> "solutions" as you've illustrated.
> Maxima's solve program produces the illustrated form when it cannot
> solve any better. It is presumably a feature.
>
> Also a feature: It does not produce extran
squaring both sides of an equation often produces extraneous
"solutions" as you've illustrated.
Maxima's solve program produces the illustrated form when it cannot
solve any better. It is presumably a feature.
Also a feature: It does not produce extraneous solutions and check
them afterwards, at
Maybe the following workaround attempt
will be helpful?
var('x,mp,me')
eq=mp-sqrt(x^2+me^2)==x
assume(mp>0)
solve(eq^2,x)
[x == 1/2*(me^2 - mp^2)/mp, x == -1/2*(me^2 - mp^2)/mp]
On 15 Maj, 01:34, Dox wrote:
> Hi again list,
>
> This time I come with a problem of solving an algebraic expression
