Re: Using % in ; separated commands
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- Subject: [mg35892] Re: [mg35889] Using % in ; separated commands
- From: Ken Levasseur <Kenneth_Levasseur at uml.edu>
- Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 05:59:10 -0400 (EDT)
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Kaustubh: Here is how to avoid % (which should be avoided in all cases). a /. Last[Solve[Sin[a] == 0.4717*Sin[Pi/3 - a], a]] Ken Levasseur Math. Sci. UMass Lowell Kaustubh Raghukumar wrote: > Hi, > I have been using Mathematica for basic stuff so far > and find myself lost on how to acheive the following: > > I need to extract the last numerical value of 'a' in > Solve ( without the 'a ->'), so I can use it > elsewhere, without having to type it in. Here is what > I wrote > > Solve[Sin[a]==0.4717 * Sin[(Pi/3)-a],a]; Last[a /. %] > > The problem is that the value in '%' is not the output > of Solve, but the whatever operation came before that! > Any help on how to extract the last numerical from > solve will be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks a lot, > Kaustubh > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better > http://health.yahoo.com
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- Using % in ; separated commands
- From: Kaustubh Raghukumar <kausmic@yahoo.com>
- Using % in ; separated commands