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Re: Finding Solution to Set of Equations with Inequality Constraints

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  • Subject: [mg19389] Re: Finding Solution to Set of Equations with Inequality Constraints
  • From: "Allan Hayes" <hay at haystack.demon.co.uk>
  • Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 13:57:08 -0400
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Herbert Gintis <gintis at econs.umass.edu> wrote in message
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> Is there a Mathematica program that takes a set of equations
> (multivariate polynomial) and finds a solution that satisfies certain
> inequality constraints? The number of equations is less than the
> number of unknowns, so there is a nonlinear manifold of solutions to
> the equations. I just want a few that satisfy the inequalities.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Best Regards,
>
>
> Herbert M Gintis
> Professor of Economics
> University of Massachusetts
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>

Herbert,
Is the Standard package  Algebra`AlgebraicInequalities`  of help?
We can get extra solutions by strengthening the inequatities in various
ways.

Allan
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