I am new to sage. So, sorry if my question is trivial.
How can I get the values of a solve operation. Say I have
x = var('x');
f = x^2 - 5*x + 6;
z = solve(f = 0, x);
show(z);gives me something like
[x == 2, x == 3]How can I take the value 2 or 3 from that?
Also, when I was trying to solve another equation (quiet a long one), I get the solution as
[0 = something something.....]What does that zero mean?
I am new to sage. So, sorry if my question is trivial.
Not at all! Likely you could have found this by doing a little more reconnaissance, but hopefully others in the same boat will now find this instead.
Incidentally, x is the only predefined variable, so your first line is not needed. Also, the semicolons are not necessary to suppress output.
I hope this example answers your questions.
sage: f = x^2 - 5*x + 6
sage: z = solve(f,x) # f==0 is implicit
sage: z
[x == 3, x == 2]
sage: z[0]
x == 3
sage: z[1]
x == 2
sage: z[0].rhs()
3
sage: z[0].lhs()
xEssentially, Sage returns Python lists, and this is how to extract stuff from them. It returns a symbolic equality, and then the rhs() method gets the "right hand side".
There is another way to get solutions as Python dicts, but that is slightly more advanced so maybe someone else can comment on that.
No problem! In fact, semicolons *do* have a purpose in Python. Compare two lines `2+2` and `2+3` with `2+2; 2+3` in a notebook cell.
Sometimes - especially in more complicated multivariate cases - using the option solution_dict = True is convenient. It doesn't really help here, but for your example:
x = var('x')
f = x^2 - 5*x + 6
z = solve(f, x, solution_dict=True)
for solution in z:
print x.subs(solution)
3
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