Re: [Maxima-discuss] Why does 'solve' not work here?

[Robert D. <rob...@gm...>]

On 2014-02-15, Martin Kraska <kr...@fh...> wrote:

> thanks a lot for the hint  to Solver(), this could be a candidate for
> standard solver of  our SMath Studio to Maxima interface. Are you aware of
> any good reason to not prefer it over solve()? I really like the pragmatic
> engineering approach described in the doc.

Well, the only way to decide among them would be to collect a lot of
example problems and see which function is the most successful. Then
make a little helper function to try the most successful one first,
then punt to the others if that one fails. It's not guaranteed to work
although it would be an improvement on the current situation.

best,

Robert Dodier