On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 9:05 AM, kcrisman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Or I could make an init.sage file and put it in, right? It could be
> useful to put a sample of the sort of commands which live in that kind
> of file on the Wiki FAQ, or even a blank file with suggestions
> commente
>
> Your best is to use Sage's actual polynomial objects instead of
> symbolic expressions (if you're just interested in polynomial
> expressions).
>
> sage: R. = ZZ[]
> sage: a = y^5 - y - 12
> sage: a.roots(RR)
> [(1.68758384186451, 1)]
> sage: a.roots(CC)
>
> [(1.68758384186451, 1),
> (0.47252
Hello,
> 1. The solve wrapper of maxima does some nice stuff symbolically, but
> of course it can't handle everything, like
>
> sage: solve(x^5-x-12,x)
> [0 == x^5 - x - 12]
>
> which makes sense! But I poked around a little for a numerical
> approximation of solutions command and didn't
