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Re: Can Mathematica 4 do this?

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• Subject: [mg24523] Re: Can Mathematica 4 do this?
• From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
• Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 03:04:05 -0400 (EDT)
• Organization: Universitaet Leipzig
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Hi,

a) Mathematica 4.0 has one of the best equation solvers 
   When Mathematica can't solve it other systems
   will fail as well.
b) 40 min for 8 equations -- depends on the nonlinearity
   but 4-12 days (on a UltraSPARC) are possible even for 4 equations

Regards
  Jens

Hyun Go wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm trying to solve a system of 8 equations with 8
> unknowns using Solve --by simply making them into a
> system of simultaneous equation and let Solve run.
> However, the calculation's been running for more than
> 40 mins so far and I'm still waiting (I have set
> $RecursionLimit = 2000).