forwarded 431866 [EMAIL PROTECTED] thanks Confirmed this in the latest release of 5.13.0 to Debian.
Take care, "Robert Dodier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > To whom it may concern, > > What I observe when I try this example: > > solve([n*force*cos(alpha) + n^2 + n = X, n*force*sin(alpha) + n^2 + n > = Y], [n, force]); > > in Maxima 5.12.0 + Windows or 5.13.0 + Windows > or 5.13.0 + Centos Linux, is that Maxima thinks for a while > (maybe 60 s) and then returns an empty list, i.e. [] . > > However from what I can tell that is a spurious result; the > equations actually have 2 solutions, which if I'm not mistaken > can obtained by solving one equation for force, substituting > that into the other one, and solving the resulting quadratic > for n. If someone has time maybe this example could be > reported to the Maxima bug tracker, in case someone works > on the solve function at some point. > > Hope this helps, > > Robert Dodier > Maxima developer > > > > -- Camm Maguire [EMAIL PROTECTED] ========================================================================== "The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens." -- Baha'u'llah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]