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    <title>MaplePrimes - answers and comments on Question, How do I get Maple to give me an approximate number when evalf wont work?</title>
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      <link>http://www.mapleprimes.com/questions/143576-How-Do-I-Get-Maple-To-Give-Me-An-Approximate?ref=Feed:MaplePrimes:How do I get Maple to give me an approximate number when evalf wont work?:Comments#answer143581</link>
      <itunes:summary>&lt;p&gt;Solving for a variable does not assign the value of that variable. You may assign it if you want, but that is often undesirable because it affects all expressions using that variable.. The usual method is to use the solution with the &lt;strong&gt;eval&lt;/strong&gt; command to evaluate an expression at the solution. I hope this example will illustrate this concept for you:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;form name="worksheet_form"&gt;
&lt;table style="width: 480px;" align="center"&gt;
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&lt;td&gt;
&lt;table style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;"&gt;
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&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="color: #78000e; font-size: 100%; font-family: Courier New,monospace; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal;"&gt; &amp;gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p style="margin: 0 0 0 0; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #78000e; font-size: 100%; font-family: Courier New,monospace; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal;"&gt;f1:= randpoly(iDS, degree= 2);&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;p style="margin: 0 0 0 0; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;" align="center"&gt;&lt;img style="vertical-align: -6;" src="/view.aspx?sf=143581/454086/839dc75fe062bf0fee05dc08be10246d.gif" alt="97*iDS^2-73*iDS-4" width="170" height="27"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;table style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;"&gt;
&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr valign="baseline"&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="color: #78000e; font-size: 100%; font-family: Courier New,monospace; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal;"&gt; &amp;gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p style="margin: 0 0 0 0; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #78000e; font-size: 100%; font-family: Courier New,monospace; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal;"&gt;f2:= randpoly(iDS, degree= 2);&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;p style="margin: 0 0 0 0; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;" align="center"&gt;&lt;img style="vertical-align: -6;" src="/view.aspx?sf=143581/454086/83474280688a279736986c6f2784fcf8.gif" alt="-83*iDS^2-10*iDS+62" width="188" height="27"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;table style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;"&gt;
&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr valign="baseline"&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="color: #78000e; font-size: 100%; font-family: Courier New,monospace; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal;"&gt; &amp;gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p style="margin: 0 0 0 0; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #78000e; font-size: 100%; font-family: Courier New,monospace; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal;"&gt;M:= &amp;lt; &amp;lt; f2 &amp;gt; &amp;gt;; # a 1-element matrix.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;p style="margin: 0 0 0 0; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;" align="center"&gt;&lt;img style="vertical-align: -12;" src="/view.aspx?sf=143581/454086/129c407662c5c50cca1725a8fc6dc222.gif" alt="M := Matrix(1, 1, {(1, 1) = -83*iDS^2-10*iDS+62})" width="210" height="35"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;table style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;"&gt;
&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr valign="baseline"&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="color: #78000e; font-size: 100%; font-family: Courier New,monospace; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal;"&gt; &amp;gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p style="margin: 0 0 0 0; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #78000e; font-size: 100%; font-family: Courier New,monospace; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal;"&gt;sol:= solve(f1, {iDS});&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;p style="margin: 0 0 0 0; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;" align="center"&gt;&lt;img style="vertical-align: -16;" src="/view.aspx?sf=143581/454086/7504584866b435de15caba6aa386915b.gif" alt="{iDS = 73/194+(1/194)*6881^(1/2)}, {iDS = 73/194-(1/194)*6881^(1/2)}" width="424" height="42"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;table style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;"&gt;
&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr valign="baseline"&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="color: #78000e; font-size: 100%; font-family: Courier New,monospace; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal;"&gt; &amp;gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p style="margin: 0 0 0 0; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #78000e; font-size: 100%; font-family: Courier New,monospace; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal;"&gt;sol[1];&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;/tbody&gt;
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&lt;p style="margin: 0 0 0 0; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;" align="center"&gt;&lt;img style="vertical-align: -16;" src="/view.aspx?sf=143581/454086/4b3ad3928efa5350cfb48f3b4de915fc.gif" alt="{iDS = 73/194+(1/194)*6881^(1/2)}" width="193" height="42"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;table style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;"&gt;
&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr valign="baseline"&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="color: #78000e; font-size: 100%; font-family: Courier New,monospace; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal;"&gt; &amp;gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p style="margin: 0 0 0 0; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #78000e; font-size: 100%; font-family: Courier New,monospace; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal;"&gt;eval(M[1,1], sol[1]);&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="margin: 0 0 0 0; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;" align="center"&gt;&lt;img style="vertical-align: -16;" src="/view.aspx?sf=143581/454086/f9911112bd4afb3ee4913d88b0cef840.gif" alt="-83*(73/194+(1/194)*6881^(1/2))^2+5649/97-(5/97)*6881^(1/2)" width="348" height="46"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;table style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;"&gt;
&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr valign="baseline"&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="color: #78000e; font-size: 100%; font-family: Courier New,monospace; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal;"&gt; &amp;gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p style="margin: 0 0 0 0; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #78000e; font-size: 100%; font-family: Courier New,monospace; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal;"&gt;evalf(%);&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;p style="margin: 0 0 0 0; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;" align="center"&gt;&lt;img style="vertical-align: -6;" src="/view.aspx?sf=143581/454086/9fe126ca74d8e5b8377ace3e4a7cbd8d.gif" alt=".32537173926081" width="122" height="23"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;table style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;"&gt;
&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr valign="baseline"&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="color: #78000e; font-size: 100%; font-family: Courier New,monospace; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal;"&gt; &amp;gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p style="margin: 0 0 0 0; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #78000e; font-size: 100%; font-family: Courier New,monospace; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;input type="hidden" name="sequence" value="1"&gt; &lt;input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="none"&gt;&lt;/form&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;Don't hesistate to ask if you need more explanation.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="/view.aspx?sf=143581/454086/eval_exmp.mw"&gt;Download eval_exmp.mw&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</itunes:summary>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Solving for a variable does not assign the value of that variable. You may assign it if you want, but that is often undesirable because it affects all expressions using that variable.. The usual method is to use the solution with the &lt;strong&gt;eval&lt;/strong&gt; command to evaluate an expression at the solution. I hope this example will illustrate this concept for you:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;form name="worksheet_form"&gt;
&lt;table style="width: 480px;" align="center"&gt;
&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;table style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;"&gt;
&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr valign="baseline"&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="color: #78000e; font-size: 100%; font-family: Courier New,monospace; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal;"&gt; &amp;gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p style="margin: 0 0 0 0; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #78000e; font-size: 100%; font-family: Courier New,monospace; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal;"&gt;f1:= randpoly(iDS, degree= 2);&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;p style="margin: 0 0 0 0; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;" align="center"&gt;&lt;img style="vertical-align: -6;" src="/view.aspx?sf=143581/454086/839dc75fe062bf0fee05dc08be10246d.gif" alt="97*iDS^2-73*iDS-4" width="170" height="27"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;table style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;"&gt;
&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr valign="baseline"&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="color: #78000e; font-size: 100%; font-family: Courier New,monospace; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal;"&gt; &amp;gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p style="margin: 0 0 0 0; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #78000e; font-size: 100%; font-family: Courier New,monospace; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal;"&gt;f2:= randpoly(iDS, degree= 2);&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;p style="margin: 0 0 0 0; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;" align="center"&gt;&lt;img style="vertical-align: -6;" src="/view.aspx?sf=143581/454086/83474280688a279736986c6f2784fcf8.gif" alt="-83*iDS^2-10*iDS+62" width="188" height="27"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;table style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;"&gt;
&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr valign="baseline"&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="color: #78000e; font-size: 100%; font-family: Courier New,monospace; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal;"&gt; &amp;gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p style="margin: 0 0 0 0; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #78000e; font-size: 100%; font-family: Courier New,monospace; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal;"&gt;M:= &amp;lt; &amp;lt; f2 &amp;gt; &amp;gt;; # a 1-element matrix.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;p style="margin: 0 0 0 0; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;" align="center"&gt;&lt;img style="vertical-align: -12;" src="/view.aspx?sf=143581/454086/129c407662c5c50cca1725a8fc6dc222.gif" alt="M := Matrix(1, 1, {(1, 1) = -83*iDS^2-10*iDS+62})" width="210" height="35"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;table style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;"&gt;
&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr valign="baseline"&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="color: #78000e; font-size: 100%; font-family: Courier New,monospace; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal;"&gt; &amp;gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p style="margin: 0 0 0 0; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #78000e; font-size: 100%; font-family: Courier New,monospace; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal;"&gt;sol:= solve(f1, {iDS});&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;p style="margin: 0 0 0 0; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;" align="center"&gt;&lt;img style="vertical-align: -16;" src="/view.aspx?sf=143581/454086/7504584866b435de15caba6aa386915b.gif" alt="{iDS = 73/194+(1/194)*6881^(1/2)}, {iDS = 73/194-(1/194)*6881^(1/2)}" width="424" height="42"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;table style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;"&gt;
&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr valign="baseline"&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="color: #78000e; font-size: 100%; font-family: Courier New,monospace; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal;"&gt; &amp;gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p style="margin: 0 0 0 0; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #78000e; font-size: 100%; font-family: Courier New,monospace; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal;"&gt;sol[1];&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;p style="margin: 0 0 0 0; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;" align="center"&gt;&lt;img style="vertical-align: -16;" src="/view.aspx?sf=143581/454086/4b3ad3928efa5350cfb48f3b4de915fc.gif" alt="{iDS = 73/194+(1/194)*6881^(1/2)}" width="193" height="42"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;table style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;"&gt;
&lt;tbody&gt;
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&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="color: #78000e; font-size: 100%; font-family: Courier New,monospace; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal;"&gt; &amp;gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p style="margin: 0 0 0 0; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #78000e; font-size: 100%; font-family: Courier New,monospace; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal;"&gt;eval(M[1,1], sol[1]);&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="margin: 0 0 0 0; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;" align="center"&gt;&lt;img style="vertical-align: -16;" src="/view.aspx?sf=143581/454086/f9911112bd4afb3ee4913d88b0cef840.gif" alt="-83*(73/194+(1/194)*6881^(1/2))^2+5649/97-(5/97)*6881^(1/2)" width="348" height="46"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;table style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;"&gt;
&lt;tbody&gt;
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&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="color: #78000e; font-size: 100%; font-family: Courier New,monospace; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal;"&gt; &amp;gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p style="margin: 0 0 0 0; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #78000e; font-size: 100%; font-family: Courier New,monospace; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal;"&gt;evalf(%);&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="margin: 0 0 0 0; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;" align="center"&gt;&lt;img style="vertical-align: -6;" src="/view.aspx?sf=143581/454086/9fe126ca74d8e5b8377ace3e4a7cbd8d.gif" alt=".32537173926081" width="122" height="23"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="color: #78000e; font-size: 100%; font-family: Courier New,monospace; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal;"&gt; &amp;gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;p style="margin: 0 0 0 0; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #78000e; font-size: 100%; font-family: Courier New,monospace; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;input type="hidden" name="sequence" value="1"&gt; &lt;input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="none"&gt;&lt;/form&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;Don't hesistate to ask if you need more explanation.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="/view.aspx?sf=143581/454086/eval_exmp.mw"&gt;Download eval_exmp.mw&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2013 10:06:32 Z</pubDate>
      <itunes:author>Carl Love</itunes:author>
      <author>Carl Love</author>
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