Re: Solve weirdness
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- Subject: [mg35017] Re: [mg35001] Solve weirdness
- From: Andrzej Kozlowski <andrzej at platon.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
- Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 02:13:11 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
First, you omitted something. Second, I wonder how you got your answer.
My Mathematica 4.1 for Max OS X (quite correctly) produces:
In[1]:=
Solve[{k*.01^p==10,k*.1^p==1},{k,p}]
From In[1]:=
Solve::tdep: The equations appear to involve the variables to be solved
for
in an essentially non-algebraic way.
Out[1]=
Solve[{0.01^p*k == 10, 0.1^p*k == 1}, {k, p}]
The message should be self-explanatory. Solve is not meant to solve
non-algebraic equations. (This topic has been discussed a countless
number of times here and if you need more explanation just look in the
archives or read the online help).
Andrzej Kozlowski
Toyama International University
JAPAN
http://platon.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/andrzej/
On Wednesday, June 19, 2002, at 06:52 PM, Joshua A. Solomon wrote:
> shouldn't
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> Solve[{k*.01^p==10,k*.1^==1},{k,p}]
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> produce
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> {{k->10.,p->-1.}}
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> ? it doesn't. it produces
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> {{}}
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> . what's up with that?
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> js
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