As an engineer and not a mathematician, I'm interested most often in getting symbolic solutions to various equations.  But when I enter an equation, say, for |a| where a is a complex equation for the frequency response of a filter, Maple simply returns "|a|".  Well, I knew that!  What I want is the symbolic equation of the magnitude of the frequency response, not a parroting of what I just typed.  I have yet to find the command that will give me this.  The help file is less than helpful in this regard.  "How do I ..." seems focused on obtaining numerical solutions, not symbolic solutions, for example.  I find that it's usually much quicker to just do the math on paper.

I'm trying to lad a comma separated data set and I get an "Invalid minus error".  Neither the filename nor the data set has a minus anywhere in them.  See attached file:  SST Gm Stats.mw  

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Since I can't upload a .csv file here are its contents:

5248.65,5178.95,5231.01,5161.78,5329.23,5258.52,5311.33,5241.1,5268.2,5198.26,5250.5,5181.03,5348.75,5277.8,5330.79,5260.32,5248.91,5179.21,5231.27,5162.03,5329.49,5258.77,5311.59,5241.35,5268.47,5198.53,5250.77,5181.29,5349.02,5278.06,5331.06,5260.58,5238.16,5168.61,5220.56,5151.47,5318.58,5248.01,5300.72,5230.63,5257.68,5187.88,5240.02,5170.68,5338.06,5267.25,5320.15,5249.81,5238.42,5168.86,5220.82,5151.72,5318.84,5248.27,5300.98,5230.88,5257.95,5188.14,5240.28,5170.94,5338.33,5267.52,5320.41,5250.07,5249.41

Where's the "minus" let alone an invalid one?

John

As a new user to Maple, I'm having trouble with something that should be simple - obtaining an algebraic simultaneous solution for two variables from two simple algebraic equations:

K1= N*(R9 + R6) + R9 / (R9 + R6)*N^2 + (2*R6 + 2*R9)*N + R9
K2= N*(R6 + R9) / (R6 + R9)*N^2 + (2*R6 + 2*R9)*N + R9

K1, K2 and N are known and I want to find the solutions for R6 and R9.  I know I could work this out by hand, but by learning how to use Maple to do this simple example would allow me to solve other, more complex, problems.

Thanks,

John