[sage-support] Re: solve, integrate, series

2008-10-28 Thread Martin Rubey
Jason Grout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > var("t") > y=function('y',t) > solve(diff(y,t,2)-2*diff(y,t)+diff(y,t)==3, y(t)) > > to "solve" for y(t). > > Doesn't Axiom work this way? Yes. (well, FriCAS is what I'm developing) Actually, one thing which is really nice about FriCAS is that it's ve

[sage-support] Re: solve, integrate, series

2008-10-28 Thread Jason Grout
Robert Bradshaw wrote: > On Oct 27, 2008, at 1:02 PM, Martin Rubey wrote: > >> "David Joyner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Martin Rubey >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear William, thanks for your quick answer, even though it doesn't make me

[sage-support] Re: solve, integrate, series

2008-10-28 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Oct 27, 2008, at 1:02 PM, Martin Rubey wrote: > "David Joyner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Martin Rubey >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> Dear William, >>> >>> thanks for your quick answer, even though it doesn't make me too >>> happy. I'm >>> hav

[sage-support] Re: solve, integrate, series

2008-10-28 Thread Robert Dodier
On Oct 27, 11:00 am, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > sage: axiom.solve(sqrt(sqrt(4*x^2 + 1) - x^2 - 1), x) > > >+-+ +-+ > > [x= 0,x= \|2 ,x= - \|2 ] > > Sage's solve command is simply a light wrapper around Maxima's, > and Maxima doesn't solve the above: FTR the

[sage-support] Re: solve, integrate, series

2008-10-28 Thread John Cremona
2008/10/28 Stan Schymanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Just to add another view, I can never remember all the different > function names, so I find it very convenient to have namespace > pollution as Martin Rubey calls it. If I look for a certain plot > function, I would like to be able to type plot

[sage-support] Re: solve, integrate, series

2008-10-28 Thread Stan Schymanski
Just to add another view, I can never remember all the different function names, so I find it very convenient to have namespace pollution as Martin Rubey calls it. If I look for a certain plot function, I would like to be able to type plot and then hit the tab button to see all the possible variat

[sage-support] Re: solve, integrate, series

2008-10-27 Thread Martin Rubey
"David Joyner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Martin Rubey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Dear William, > > > > thanks for your quick answer, even though it doesn't make me too happy. I'm > > having a hard time here, I must admit. So far I thought that sage w

[sage-support] Re: solve, integrate, series

2008-10-27 Thread David Joyner
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Martin Rubey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear William, > > thanks for your quick answer, even though it doesn't make me too happy. I'm > having a hard time here, I must admit. So far I thought that sage would do > most things out of the box, and it's only inco

[sage-support] Re: solve, integrate, series

2008-10-27 Thread Martin Rubey
Dear William, thanks for your quick answer, even though it doesn't make me too happy. I'm having a hard time here, I must admit. So far I thought that sage would do most things out of the box, and it's only inconsistent (eg., arguments to plot, plot3d and integrate vary wildly. There are sever

[sage-support] Re: solve, integrate, series

2008-10-27 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 7:48 AM, Martin Rubey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How come that solve doesn't solve this? > > sage: solve(sqrt(sqrt(4*x^2 + 1) - x^2 - 1), x) > [x == -sqrt(sqrt(4*x^2 + 1) - 1), x == sqrt(sqrt(4*x^2 + 1) - 1)] > > sage: axiom.solve(sqrt(sqrt(4*x^2 + 1) - x^2 - 1), x) > >