[sage-support] Re: Getting the approximate solution to an exact equation

2009-10-15 Thread Scott
Yes, that is exactly what I want...fractions/pi/etc to auto- approximate. Or they don't even have to "auto" approximate, but if I can just call a function that THEN approximates the fractions, pi, etc. After I re-read my first post, it definitely wasn't very clear :) But now you know. I wouldn

[sage-support] Re: Getting the approximate solution to an exact equation

2009-10-15 Thread Scott
Yes, that is exactly what I want...fractions/pi/etc to auto- approximate. Or they don't even have to "auto" approximate, but if I can just call a function that THEN approximates the fractions, pi, etc. After I re-read my first post, it definitely wasn't very clear :) But now you know. I wouldn

[sage-support] Re: Getting the approximate solution to an exact equation

2009-10-15 Thread Scott
Yes, that is exactly what I want...fractions/pi/etc to auto- approximate. Or they don't even have to "auto" approximate, but if I can just call a function that THEN approximates the fractions, pi, etc. After I re-read my first post, it definitely wasn't very clear :) But now you know. I wouldn

[sage-support] Re: Getting the approximate solution to an exact equation

2009-10-15 Thread Scott
Yes, that is exactly what I want...fractions/pi/etc to auto- approximate. Or they don't even have to "auto" approximate, but if I can just call a function that THEN approximates the fractions, pi, etc. After I re-read my first post, it definitely wasn't very clear :) But now you know. I wouldn

[sage-support] Re: Getting the approximate solution to an exact equation

2009-10-15 Thread kcrisman
On Oct 15, 8:31 pm, Scott wrote: > What I really want is sage to give me the answer as: > q1 = 0.58239...(however many digits)*q2 > > Is there a way to do that?  I don't want an approximate value of the > entire thing (obviously you can't get that without giving the value of > q2), but I want i

[sage-support] Re: Getting the approximate solution to an exact equation

2009-10-15 Thread Scott
What I really want is sage to give me the answer as: q1 = 0.58239...(however many digits)*q2 Is there a way to do that? I don't want an approximate value of the entire thing (obviously you can't get that without giving the value of q2), but I want it to compute whatever it can (in this case that

[sage-support] Re: Getting the approximate solution to an exact equation

2009-10-15 Thread kcrisman
Dear Scott, Thanks for posting. On Oct 15, 6:46 pm, Scott wrote: > I know this is really basic, but for some reason I cannot figure this > out and my searching (here, sage website, google, etc) has not yielded > me any results!  I just started using sage, literally, yesterday. > > I am using s