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#26 2014-02-27 02:30:01
Re: Integrating a piecewise function with Maxima
We had y = x before doing all that.
After doing all that we have
Why do you think the second one is easier to compute? o.O
I'll ask my question a little later
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#27 2014-02-27 02:32:00
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Re: Integrating a piecewise function with Maxima
That is a simple example. It is a toy problem to teach students the technique. It would not be used for computation.
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
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#28 2014-02-27 02:46:53
Re: Integrating a piecewise function with Maxima
You mean: If the function was complicated enough then the fourier series would have been simpler than it?
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#29 2014-02-27 02:48:04
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Re: Integrating a piecewise function with Maxima
It would be necessary, not just simpler. It is easier to see with polys.
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#30 2014-02-27 03:22:40
Re: Integrating a piecewise function with Maxima
Hmm okay. Did you know that this is not the Fourier Series thread?
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#31 2014-02-27 03:27:29
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Re: Integrating a piecewise function with Maxima
Yes, we got off track when I asked you about summing a series using Fourier series.
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#32 2014-02-27 15:07:00
Re: Integrating a piecewise function with Maxima
PowersRepresentation[n,p,k] gives the list of all sets of k p-powered integers that sum upto n. Right?
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#33 2014-02-27 15:27:37
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Re: Integrating a piecewise function with Maxima
You are missing an s.
PowersRepresentations[1729, 2, 3]
Shows how to represent 1729 into 2 powers of 3
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#34 2014-02-27 15:31:51
Re: Integrating a piecewise function with Maxima
Hi;
I want to compute PowersRepresentations[x,4,2] where x is a 10 digit number (in decimal base). It seems to take forever because there are a huge ways to do it. Can I make M just calculate atleast 20 ways to do that?
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#35 2014-02-27 15:41:32
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Re: Integrating a piecewise function with Maxima
You mean at most.
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#36 2014-02-27 15:42:51
Re: Integrating a piecewise function with Maxima
yes.
Because there can be a huge number of possibilities, M is taking time. I want it to show only a few of them which can be done in a time that fits my patience
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#37 2014-02-27 15:51:10
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Re: Integrating a piecewise function with Maxima
That will require a program.
I have to go offline. I will show you how I do that already in the other thread.
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#38 2014-02-27 16:14:46
Re: Integrating a piecewise function with Maxima
That will require a program.
A program other than Mathematica?
I had done that already. (Post 100, 112 and 113)
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#39 2014-02-27 20:58:13
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Re: Integrating a piecewise function with Maxima
Hi;
M is a programming language too. As a matter of fact it is several languages rolled into one. No CAS could possibly anticipate the users every need.
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#40 2014-02-27 22:57:17
Re: Integrating a piecewise function with Maxima
Is there no simple way to tell M what I need to?
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#41 2014-02-27 23:28:06
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Re: Integrating a piecewise function with Maxima
Yes there is, probably only a few lines. M programs are quite short. Have you not seen the examples I gave to Shivam?
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#42 2014-02-27 23:38:12
Re: Integrating a piecewise function with Maxima
That I have.
The next person might begin
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#43 2014-02-27 23:41:36
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Re: Integrating a piecewise function with Maxima
Hath ye not gone to the mighty demonstrations site? There ye will behold M's magnificence.
The idea is uproariously simple.
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#44 2014-02-27 23:44:08
Re: Integrating a piecewise function with Maxima
I have seen all that but I never found a demonstration that does what I want now
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#45 2014-02-27 23:48:30
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Re: Integrating a piecewise function with Maxima
This is why M is the greatest. Do you know who Legendre was?
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#46 2014-02-27 23:54:52
Re: Integrating a piecewise function with Maxima
A member in this forum.
right?
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#47 2014-02-27 23:56:14
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Re: Integrating a piecewise function with Maxima
Hmm, I do not think so. He may have been a guest.
Anyway, do you know one of the things he is famous for?
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#48 2014-02-28 00:01:06
Re: Integrating a piecewise function with Maxima
No, I have never even heard of him.
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'God exists because Mathematics is consistent, and the devil exists because we cannot prove it'
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#49 2014-02-28 00:04:35
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Re: Integrating a piecewise function with Maxima
He is one of the greatest mathematicians of all time.
Lagrange's four-square theorem, also known as Bachet's conjecture, states that any natural number can be represented as the sum of four integer squares.
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#50 2014-02-28 00:05:28
Re: Integrating a piecewise function with Maxima
Who is the Legendre guy then?
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