How to get Mathematica to solve for "nonbasic variables"?
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- Subject: [mg42359] How to get Mathematica to solve for "nonbasic variables"?
- From: a_cjones at hotmail.com (cdj)
- Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 06:36:21 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Hi all, Intuitively, I'd like to get Mathematica to compute things of the following sort: In: Solve[5x==6y,x/y] Out: {x/y -> 5/6} Of course Mathematica won't do this - and several obvious variations on this theme don't seem to work either (e.g., introducing a new variable z = x/y, and attempting to solve the system for z). So what's the easiest way to solve (systems of) equations for nonatomic variables of this sort? Thanks for any suggestions, cdj
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