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DJF16-Pearl
16-Pearl
February 2, 2018
Question

Symbolics...what am I doing wrong?

  • February 2, 2018
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Using symbolics (4.0) to develop an algebraic solution - but I get more than I bargained for.  

 

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I can't seem to find an assume or other feature to simplify this.  I'm assuming I need to specify real solutions or similar but that doesn't seem to work.  What I'm expecting to see is:

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Any ideas?

 

Thanks,

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Fred_Kohlhepp23-Emerald I
23-Emerald I
February 2, 2018

What are you doing wrong?

 

Using Mathcad for symbolic solving!  Smiley Wink

 

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Werner_E25-Diamond I
25-Diamond I
February 2, 2018

I agree with Fred 😉

 

I assume that j should NOT denote the imaginary unit, right?

 

Here is my best attempt - I had no luck in persuading Prime to return only the real solution (the one with _x=0)

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LucMeekes23-Emerald IV
23-Emerald IV
February 3, 2018

I don't, but then... I have Mathcad 11:

LM_20180203_Symbolic.png

 

Success!
Luc

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Werner_E25-Diamond I
25-Diamond I
February 4, 2018
wrote:

I don't, but then... I have Mathcad 11:

LM_20180203_Symbolic.png

 

Success!
Luc

Still disappointing when we expect something more simple like this

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