What does r signify in this output?

asked 2018-02-01 19:02:18 +0100

ds22 gravatar image

It appears after lam == 

solve([diff(P,x) == 0, diff(P,y) == 0], x, y, lam)

 [[x == 816.8214285714286, y == 506.0324074074074, lam == r5], [x == -816.2645502645503, y == -514.5402298850574, lam == r6], [x == (13.33265402759081 + 1414.015105182754*I), y == (3.906674551362281 - 883.7900965450355*I), lam == r7], [x == (13.33265402759081 - 1414.015105182754*I), y == (3.906674551362281 + 883.7900965450355*I), lam == r8]]
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The r1, r2, r3, r4 "free variables" were allocated at some previous run.

In this run, the lamba value, declared as a variable of the system (although it has nothing to do with the system (if P not mentioned here, but in some other post, does also not depend on lam)), is not involved in the system. So it can be freely chosen. In each of the four new solution is chosen a new one, so this gives rise to r5, r6, r7, r8.

dan_fulea gravatar imagedan_fulea ( 2018-02-01 19:13:10 +0100 )edit

@dan_fulea Yeah, I realize lam has nothing to do with the system. I am just trying to emulate an example from a textbook which includes the variable lam. However, I am unable to figure out what lam is supposed to do or what it is supposed to equal.

ds22 gravatar imageds22 ( 2018-02-01 19:28:09 +0100 )edit
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