Re: Equations over Domains with Mathematica 4?
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- Subject: [mg103079] Re: Equations over Domains with Mathematica 4?
- From: Emu <samuel.thomas.blake at gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 02:35:48 -0400 (EDT)
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On Sep 6, 9:38=C2 pm, Martin Harborth <martin.harbo... at yahoo.de> wrote: > For the following equation, I want to get only the solutions > for z where z is real: > > Reduce[13219.56 == 20000/1.95583 * (1 + z)^11, z] > > It is suggested that one uses > > Reduce[13219.56 == 20000/1.95583 * (1 + z)^11, z, Reals] > > But I use Mathematica 4 and it seems that Reduce does not have > this option in this Mathematica version. > > Can I anyway constrain the solution space with Mathematica 4? > > Thanks in advance > M. Harborth. The following works In[1]:=$Version//InputForm Out[1]//InputForm="4.2 for Mac OS X (August 22, 2002)" In[2]:=Select[z/.Solve[13219.56=000/1.95583*(1+z)^11,z],#=E2=88=88= Reals&] Out[2]={0.0236182} or In[3]:=Select[Reduce[13219.56=000/1.95583*(1+z)^11,z],Last[#] =E2=88=88Reals&] Out[3]=z==0.0236182 Sam