Re: What is causing this error message?
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- Subject: [mg57575] Re: [mg57537] What is causing this error message?
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 06:02:47 -0400 (EDT)
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You have (at least) two errors in the input cell you show:
(1) Presumably you want the terms x y and x y^2 rather than xy and xy^2.
(The latter pair would refer to a two-letter variable "xy".)
(2) You need the double-equal sign == to indicate an equation. (By
contrast, the single-equals = is used to assign values, which is
shorhand for the Set function.)
Such examples are a good way to learn how Mathematica works, but it's
also a very good idea to do start at the beginning of the part "A
Practical Introduction to Mathematica" to learn such basic syntactical
notions as well as the semantics of them.
Bookreader wrote:
> NSolve[{x^3y + xy - 10 = 0, xy^2 - xy + 6 = 0}, {x, y}]
>
> Set::write: Tag Plus in -10 + x y + x^3 y is Protected. More?
>
> Please tell me how to correct this.
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