On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 4:21 AM, Stan Schymanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Mike, > > Thanks for your feedback. Pity, I thought I omitted something obvious. > > For some reason, Mathematica and Maple seem to do better at solving > such equations, even though the results can become a bit convoluted. > Sometimes, SAGE manages to solve an equation if it is re-formulated in > a different way, but this is more a trial and error process. It would > be good if SAGE gave a warning in the case that it didn't manage to > solve an equation, otherwise one thinks the output is the solution and > only realises later that the variable to be solved for still appears > in the output. > > Do you know if anyone is working on the solver in sage or is it all > done by maxima? >
It is all done by Maxima. Hopefully someday it will all be done by Sage and will implement more sophisticated algorithms (e.g., very powerful linear algebra algorithms in some cases, much better than anything that is likely to be in maxima; much more poweful multivariate polynomial algorithms in some cases via Groebner basis, etc.). Nobody is currently working on this though. William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
