On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 8:33 AM, Stan Schymanski <schym...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I am really, really missing a function like MMA's Reduce in sage. > Typically, when I want to solve a complicated equation, sage throws > various questions generated by maxima at me, about whether variables > and certain terms are positive, zero, or negative. Some of them can be > answered a priori by appropriate assume() statements, others can't, so > I often run into a dead end and can't solve equations that would be > easily solved by MMA. Very frustrating. > > Would it be hard to write a routine, which answers all of maxima's > questions with all possible answers and creates a new solution branch > for each answer? I think this is what MMA's Reduce does, and at the > end it presents the result as a list of nested conditions for each > solution. Would anyone else be interested in such a functionality and, > more importantly, would anyone have the know-how and time to implement > it?
I think it would be very interesting to try to write such a function, and there are certainly people with the appropriate knowledge... William -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
