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- • Description
- Solve is an interactive tool for doing
- mathematical analysis. It solves for values in
- equations you specify, given initial values for
- some of the variables.
- You edit the equations using a standard text
- editor, and then compile them, which produces a
- dialog. This dialog allows you to specify the initial
- values, and then displays the solution after the
- equations have been solved.
-
- • Usage
- To use the program, first create an equation
- description file (See File Format). Select new
- to create a new file, or open to use an existing
- file.
- Once the description is complete, select the
- compile option, to create the input/output
- dialog.
- Fill in the values for some of the variables,
- and then click on the Solve button to solve
- for the rest of them. Values which have been
- computed by the program will be prefixed by
- an '=' sign, to distinguish them from input values.
- Note that you don't have to specify only the
- parameters of a function. For example, try
- x = sin(y) - log(y)
- and set x to 0. The program will find the value
- of y such that sin(y) = log(y).
-