Solve Function - Having Difficulties
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I'm having trouble using the solve function and I don't understand the problem. I looked at other posts + documentation but I still don't see it.
>> x = solve('x+4==2',x)
Error using solve>getEqns (line 418)
List of equations must not be empty.
Error in solve (line 226)
[eqns,vars,options] = getEqns(varargin{:});
This is the input I entered and the error I'm receiving.
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Vaibhav Tomar
on 4 Jul 2019
Quotes are necessary as it's a string.
You need to use str2sym
str2sym(symstr) evaluates symstr where symstr is a string representing a symbolic expression. Enter symbolic expressions as strings only when reading expressions from text files or when specifying numbers exactly. Otherwise, do not use strings for symbolic input.
Use:
x=sym('x')
solx= solve(str2sym('x+4==2'),x)
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