Re: Setting up equations
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- Subject: [mg66018] Re: [mg65990] Setting up equations
- From: "Carl K. Woll" <carlw at wolfram.com>
- Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 02:26:05 -0400 (EDT)
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Yaroslav Bulatov wrote:
> I'm trying to do things of the form
> Solve[5 x + 6 y + 7 z == a x + b y + c z, {a, b, c}]
>
> But since x,y,z are variables, what I really mean is
> Solve[5==a && 6==b && 7==c], so I need to convert to this form
>
> If I only have one variable, the following does what I need
>
> LogicalExpand[a*x + b*x^2 + O[x]^3 == 2*x + 3*x^2 + O[x]^3]
>
> But what to do if I have several variables?
In your example, you could try SolveAlways:
In[1]:= SolveAlways[5 x + 6 y + 7 z == a x + b y + c z, {x, y, z}]
Out[1]= {{a -> 5, b -> 6, c -> 7}}
Carl Woll
Wolfram Research
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- From: Yaroslav Bulatov <yaroslavvb@gmail.com>
- Setting up equations