Hi, I don't use the solve() function at all. I'm probably missing the user's point of view completely, so please take what I say below with a grain of salt.
Going by the "What Would Maple Do" rule, I would like solve() to remain exact. Looking through the examples here http://www.maplesoft.com/support/help/view.aspx?path=examples/solve I couldn't see any cases where Maple switches to numeric results. I think it's better to return no results if the exact methods don't work, and point the user to the numeric solver. This is fsolve [1] in the case of Maple. Is it find_root() in Sage? [1] http://www.maplesoft.com/support/help/view.aspx?path=fsolve On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 06:30:19 -0700 (PDT) kcrisman <kcris...@gmail.com> wrote: > > For a frustrated user because of precisely this issue, see > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support/browse_thread/thread/6407896aab6a52cc/bfb4e85815ef94a3?show_docid=bfb4e85815ef94a3 > . I now think we should definitely change to having to_poly_solve as > an option, but not default, even if we miss some solutions that way, > because it's unlikely that Maxima will be able to change its behavior > very soon, even if they wanted to. In this case, I agree that we should make to_poly_solve a non-default option. Thanks. Burcin --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
