Re: Why this cannot be solved
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- Subject: [mg116191] Re: Why this cannot be solved
- From: "Sjoerd C. de Vries" <sjoerd.c.devries at gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 01:41:44 -0500 (EST)
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I'm not sure what you're trying to do here, aP is a function name, not
a variable. You can't solve for that. Also aP == a is not an algebraic
equation as both aP and a are heads not variables.
Cheers -- Sjoerd
On Feb 3, 11:32 am, olfa <olfa.mra... at yahoo.fr> wrote:
> Hi Mathematica community,
> System 1)
> Reduce[Max[e, s + a[i]] == Max[c, d + aP[iP]] && d == s - a[n]
> +Sum[a[j],{j,i,n}] &&
> aP == a && iP == n, {aP, iP, d, c}, Reals]
>
> this gives:
> Reduce::nsmet: This system cannot be solved with the methods available
> to Reduce.
>
> System 2)
> Reduce[Max[e, s + a[i]] == Max[c, d + aP[iP]] && d == s - a[n]
> +Sum[a[j],{j,i,n}] , { d, c}, Reals]
>
> this gives solutions.
>
> the only difference between them is the variables aP and iP and their
> respective equations.
> What I didn't understand is why the first system cannot be solved
> although I have given values for iP and aP inside of it?
>
> thank you.