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Re: On Reduce

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  • Subject: [mg72043] Re: On Reduce
  • From: "sigmundv" <sigmund at ostenfeld.dk>
  • Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2006 06:09:52 -0500 (EST)
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Hi mr. V. Stokes,

You can use First[] and Last[], respectively, to assign 0 and 8,
respectively, to a variable.

//Sigmund

Virgil Stokes wrote:
> I have the following small piece of Mathematica code that works fine for
> my purposes.
>
>  BInv = {{  1/4, 1/4, 0},
>               {-1/2, 1/2, 0},
>               {  3/4, -5/4, 1}}
>  B = Inverse[BInv]
>  b = {4 + \[Delta], 8, 10};
>  BInv.b // FullSimplify
>  Reduce[{%[[1]] >= 0, %[[2]] >= 0, %[[3]] >= 0}, {\[Delta]}]
>  % /. {\[Delta] -> b1 - 4} // FullSimplify
>
> which gives
>
> 0 <=  b1 <= 8
>
> which is of course correct. But, how can I use (access) the values 0 and 8?
> That is, I would like to now use these values in some expressions that
> would follow this.
> 
> Thanks,
> V. Stokes


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