Re: Symbolic equation solving

[Vipin varma]

The problem in my case was a delicate technicality: the '+/-' symbols must be white-space separated on either side between variables. Octave is still slow, so I'll try one of the recommendations - thanks for those - to see if things might speed up.

On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Martin Helm <address@hidden> wrote:

The symbolic package is partially broken at the moment, that does not
say that this is the reason for your problem or something else.
It needs volunteers to support it.
The workaround is to use one of the free computer algebra systems out
there like maxima, sage, sympy, the free version of axiom ...