Solve (on Mathematica 4.1 Windows XP)?
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- Subject: [mg33047] Solve (on Mathematica 4.1 Windows XP)?
- From: michael_chang86 at hotmail.com (Michael Chang)
- Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 00:48:05 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Hi everyone, I've noticed a problem that I've been having when trying to use Solve[] on Mathematica 4.1 for Windows XP. :( Suppose I have In[1]:= Zf=(s(C1+C2)R2+1)/(s(s C1 C2 R2+C2));zf=(s c1 r2+1)/(s(s c1 c2 r2+c1+c2)); diff=Zf-zf; (Sorry for the 'improper' (Capital) naming convention used above!) Basically, I would like to find out under what conditions Zf will (can?) be equal to zf. So I pick three points for 's', say {1,2,3}, and do the following: In[2]:= Solve[Thread[{diff/.{s->1},diff/.{s->2},diff/.{s->3}}=={0,0,0}],{c1,c2,r2}] Here, I get a solution (which is omitted for brevity) which works upon back substitution. But if I pick some other points for 's', say {Sqrt[2],Pi,3}, and try to solve for the same variables (c1,c2,r2) Solve seems to hang ... and I can't seem to obtain more encouraging results using GroebnerBasis either ... Am I doing something wrong here? If so, <blush> what? Of course, any and all help would be greatly appreciated! Regards, Michael