Regarding Errors in Maple

Posted on 2008-08-01 05:38 By toravikanth (3)

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Maple Commons general technical discussions

hi...!

I m trying to slove one equation with maple but is giving warning.

"warning, solutions my have been lost"

this type of message is appering.. wat is the meaning of that? how to solve my equation?

My equation is interms of cosh, sinh, sin and cos..

Plz.. reply..

it means: Maple warns you, that it may not have returned all sol

Comment on 2008-08-01 13:17 from Axel Vogt ( Maple Rating 4

955)

it means: Maple warns you, that it may not have returned all solutions

?solve and then to solve/details (which is a quite common way to find
info about commands) will tell you:

Missed Solutions
If the solve command cannot confirm that the solution set returned is
complete, it sets the global variable _SolutionsMayBeLost to true and
issues a warning.

Solutions may have been lost

Comment on 2008-08-01 15:48 from Robert Israel ( Maple Rating 4

1460)

To add to what Axel said:

Equations involving transcendental functions typically have solutions that can't be expressed in "closed form", so the fact that "some solutions may have been lost" may not be Maple's fault.

We might be able to say more if you posted the actual equation.

If you want a numerical solution rather than a symbolic one, you might try fsolve.