Re: Extracting the value from Solve
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- Subject: [mg85817] Re: Extracting the value from Solve
- From: Szabolcs Horvát <szhorvat at gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 04:27:06 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: University of Bergen
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Matthias Bode wrote:
> Hola Jens:
>
> "c) we have answered this several million times." - (I replied directly in
> order not to "spam" the forum.)
>
> Given, that this question is really so frequent:
> Couldn't it be possible that the manual ("THE BOOK") is not quite as
> explicit as it ought to be on this particular topic?
Actually this usage pattern is illustrated on the doc page of Solve[]
... It's also among very first examples in the Mathematica book (or the
corresponding tutorial in v6) ... I don't think that this could be made
any more prominent in the documentation.
> (I made Lea Rebanks' experience with MATHEMATICA 2.x back in abt. 1992 -
> _after_ having read the manual cover to cover.)
>
> (Lea Reabanks intention/objective was to obtain the number without ANY
> parentheses.)
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- Re: Extracting the value from Solve
- From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska@informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Re: Extracting the value from Solve