MaplePrimes - answers and comments on Question, Put the solutions of an equation into a list

if there is no [] in the result, you should use convert(

zsy312 — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 22:20:26 Z

if there is no [] in the result, you should use convert([(1)],list), otherwise you need not add the [] in the command.

list with no particular order

PatrickT — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 00:31:59 Z

Not sure exactly what you mean. It depends on how you use solve. Say you have a quadratic with 2 solutions.

sol := [solve(x^2+x+1,x)];
sol[1];
sol[2];

As far as I know the order of the solutions is not necessarily consistent across worksheet executions, so you do get a list but the order of the list could change from one time to the next.

Reading Maple Help

Markiyan Hirnyk — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 01:07:10 Z

Up to ?solve , if the second argument is a list, then the solutions are returned as a list. For example,

> solve(x^2-1, [x]);

[[x = 1], [x = -1]]

I found a way to do it

erik10 — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 17:42:26 Z

I also found a way to do it by just putting [ ] around the Maple output. The reason for having the solutions as a list was that I wanted to plot the solutions in the complex plane. Thanks a lot for your replies! I appreciate it.

Erik