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Re: symbolic evaluation

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• Subject: [mg86996] Re: [mg86951] symbolic evaluation
• From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
• Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 03:17:18 -0500 (EST)
• Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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• Reply-to: murray at math.umass.edu

Did you really spend any time examining the documentation for 
Mathematica to learn the basics?

It doesn't make sense to say "evaluate" the equation.  Surely you want 
to "solve" it, for x.  So why not look up Solve in the documentation. 
And be sure to look up the difference between the equality sign for an 
equation, the double-equal symbol ==, on the one hand, and the 
assignment (Set) single-equal symbol =, on the other hand.

news.east.cox.net wrote:
> I'm using Mathematica 5.1 I want to evaluate a simple equation 
> symbolically, such as 7x = 14. of course the answer should be x = 14/7. 
> I can't find a clear example on how to do this with a simple equation. 
> Can anyone help me?
> TIA
> Paul
> 

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