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Re: what does this answer by maple to dsolve mean?

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On 7/8/2013 7:16 AM, G. A. Edgar wrote:

>>
>> Did this happen becuase it can't find a solution for
>> y(x) from the final answer it gave at the end? since
>> doing solve(%,x) did not evaluate.
>>

(.ps typo above, meant to write solve(%,y(x)) ...

>
> This is known as an "implicit" solution.  If one could solve that
> equation for y(x), that would be the answer you want.  But of course
> there is no closed-form solution, which is why Maple writes only the
> implicit form.
>

Thanks. It might be better if Maple have added the word "solve"
there somewhere, so it is more clear that it means.

When I tried this in Mathematica, it also could not solve it
completely, but this is the answer it returned

        Solve[ ..... ==0 , y[x] ]

where .... is similar to Maple's.  The difference is that M added
the "Solve" bit. I thought this was a little bit more user-friendly
answer than just
       
           ..... = 0

regards,
--Nasser

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what does this answer by maple to dsolve mean? "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org> - 2013-07-07 23:07 -0500
  Re: what does this answer by maple to dsolve mean? "G. A. Edgar" <edgar@math.ohio-state.edu.invalid> - 2013-07-08 06:16 -0600
    Re: what does this answer by maple to dsolve mean? "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org> - 2013-07-08 11:18 -0500
      Re: what does this answer by maple to dsolve mean? "G. A. Edgar" <edgar@math.ohio-state.edu.invalid> - 2013-07-09 05:20 -0600

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