At the moment my students work with sin, cos , tan. As simple equation the should calculate the intervall where 5sin(x) is at least 3.
In Prime 5 one gets the (first) 2 solutions at once:
But in Prime 6 there is only one solution:
To get the 2. solution one has to use the "solver block" which makes things complicated.
Why is it that P6 can solve fewer equations than 5 and sometimes gives fewer solution and I cannot find a way to get all the solutions with solve?? Bug or Feature ??? I figured that "new calculation engine" means better calculation engine ....
BTW: a good CAS like Mathematica gives all of the solutions ....
Sadly we cannot use this in our schools (no money ...)
@ptc-1739038 wrote:
using the all option in 6 gives 2 solutions, but the second one given is 0 which mathematically is total b*s* or I don't understand the meaning of [0.6435 0] .....
I think Luc meant "fully" instead of "all".
switching back to legacy engine works - but this cannot be a solution ....
If you want to see the correct results its the only solution apart from switching over to a different software.
It looks like PTC never had improvement of quality in mind when they developed Prime and the same is the case when it comes to change the symbolic engine.
The legacy engine (muPad) had to be licensed from Mathworks (the makers of Matlab) and PTC sure did not like the idea to have to license technology from a competitor. Maybe Mathworks doesn't even want to renew their deal with PTC, who knows?
In this forum there were already reported quite some problems with the new symbolic engine but I don't have much hope that PTC will address and fix them.
Below you can see the result of the "fully" modifier. As you can see even the new engine gives you all results but in a weird and (for your purpose possibly) unusable way. The new engine also ignores the "assume" modifier.
While we can talk the old engine into displaying the result in a similar way as the new one using the "rewrite" modifier, it unfortunately does not work the other way round - the new engine will not display the result using the "asin" function.
So the conclusion is that the change of the symbolic engine is just another step of PTCs consequent attempts to destroy the Mathcad we knew.
@ptc-1739038 wrote:
using the all option in 6 gives 2 solutions, but the second one given is 0 which mathematically is total b*s* or I don't understand the meaning of [0.6435 0] .....
switching back to legacy engine works - but this cannot be a solution ....
Thanks anyway
The meaning of [0.6435 0] can be explained quite easily.
When you type solve,x,all Prime assumes "all" being a second variable to solve for. As this variable does not show up anywhere in the equation, solution 0 for "all" is as good as any 😉
So [0.6435 0] means "x=0.6435" and "all=0"
The combination of "fully" AND "all" lets FriCAS forget about the infinite number of solutions for "x" and it only considers the infinite number of solutions for "all" (_z ... any complex number).
As a conclusion we have to state that FriCAS is another step backwards concerning symbolic calculations in Mathcad. Mathsoft began by replacing Maple with the less capable muPad and now PTC replaces muPad with FriCAS, which again seems to be much weaker than muPad. Mathcad moves more and more away from software like Maple, Mathematica or MatLab and I doubt that we can call Mathcad a serious competitor of the aforementioned. Its really sad, as Mathcad/Prime could be such a powerful, superior tool.
Here are the results, again new and old engine:
