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Re: Extracting terms from an equation

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  • Subject: [mg69786] Re: Extracting terms from an equation
  • From: dimmechan at yahoo.com
  • Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 04:44:13 -0400 (EDT)
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Can someone explain the difference in the following?

Cases[a + b*x^2 + c*y^2 + d*x*y + e*x^3, _?( !FreeQ[#1, x] & )]
{b*x^2, e*x^3, d*x*y}

Cases[a + b*x^2 + c*y^2 + d*x*y + e*x^3, _?(MemberQ[#1, x] & )]
{d*x*y}

Thanks

Î?/Î? Coleman, Mark έγÏ?αÏ?ε:
> Greetings,
>
> I'd like to find a general way to extract all of the terms from an
> equation that involve a given variable. For instance, consider the
> equation
>
> myEquation == Exp[a + b x^2 + c y^2 + d x y + e x^3]]
>
> I'd like to define a function such that
>
>    myFunction[myEquation,x] returns the result {b x^2, d x y, e x^3}
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Mark


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