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  • Subject: [mg46879] Reduce
  • From: "Tony Harker" <a.harker at ucl.ac.uk>
  • Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 23:39:25 -0500 (EST)
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  I find Reduce in version 5 seems to have lost some functionality. In
version 4 the input

form = Reduce[{A Exp[? y] ==
     B Cos[? y] + C Sin[? y] /.
          y -> -a/2, D Exp[-? y] == B Cos[? y] + C Sin[? y] /.
        y -> a/2, (D[A Exp[? y],
      y] == D[(B Cos[? y] + C Sin[?
          y]), y]) /. y -> -a/2, (D[D Exp[-? y], y] == D[(B Cos[
        ? y] + C Sin[? y]), y]) /. y -> a/2}, {A, B, C, D}]

 produces a perfectly sensible result starting

A == 0 && D == 0 || A == B && D == B && ? == 0 && ? == 0....

 In version 5 the same input causes a long period of cogitation (far longer
than version 4 took to produce its result), and finally emerges with a
suggestion that I should look for further information on its failure which
is not yet there.

  Mathematically, the problem is relatively straightforward: the equations
reduce to M x = 0,where x={A,B,C,D}, so we just need the conditions under
which the determinant of M is zero, and any other special cases.

  Are there new controls for Reduce in version 5 which will allow its
functionality to be recovered, or is it irrevocably broken?


Tony Harker

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