Solve non linear symbolic equation

asked 2012-02-23 06:09:06 +0200

Rejeesh gravatar image

updated 2023-05-19 22:03:39 +0200

FrédéricC gravatar image

Hi, I want to solve a an expression (quiet long one involving trigonometric functions) which has a lot of symbolic parameters (8 to be exact) for x. It takes a lot of time (I didn't get an output after 45 mins). Is there any way for me to speed up things. I am sure my way is inefficient.

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This is pretty vague. Likely Maxima was working behind the scenes as well as it could; some things are just really hard to solve. Did you try the `to_poly_solve=True` parameter?

kcrisman gravatar imagekcrisman ( 2012-02-23 08:22:33 +0200 )edit

Yes I did try that. I realized that things need not be complicated. So I re-modelled my problem with some approximations and ended up with a simpler equation that sage could handle. But I don't know how to make approximations (like neglect all powers of a variable) and ended up doing that by hand. Is there any way to make sage do the approximations?

Rejeesh gravatar imageRejeesh ( 2012-02-23 11:48:32 +0200 )edit
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