Re: Adding equations
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- Subject: [mg14418] Re: [mg14342] Adding equations
- From: Garrett Tim Sos <gts at mindspring.com>
- Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 15:10:19 -0400
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Try: In: e1 = a == b; e2 = c == d; e3 = Thread[e1+e2,Equal] Out: a+c==b+d Tim Lawrence Walker wrote: > > Group: > > I've been trying to add two equations as follows: > > In[4]:= > a==b; > In[5]:= > c==d; > In[6]:= > %4+%5 > Out[6]= > (a==b)+(c==d) > > The result I was looking for is (a+c)==(b+d). The following works but it > seems clumsy. In[7]:= > %4[[1]]+%5[[1]]==%4[[2]]+%5[[2]] Out[7]= > a+c==b+d > Is there a way to elegantly add (sub, mult, div) two equations? Also is > there an elegant way to add (sub, mult, div) an expression to both > sides of an equation? > > Lawrence Walker
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- Adding equations
- From: Lawrence Walker <lwalker701@earthlink.net>
- Adding equations