Unable to solve simple system

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Imported from SourceForge on 2024-07-02 19:51:34 Created by danielvolinski on 2014-08-05 21:35:27 Original: https://sourceforge.net/p/maxima/bugs/2795

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Hi all,

I'm unable to solve this system with Maxima.

sol:solve([x=p*cos(q),y=p*sin(q)],[p,q]);

I get empty solution where it should be p=sqrt(x^2+y^2) and q=atan2(y,x).

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Daniel

I'm using "5.31.2" on Windows

[rtoy]

Imported from SourceForge on 2024-07-02 19:51:35 Created by danielvolinski on 2014-10-11 08:35:07 Original: https://sourceforge.net/p/maxima/bugs/2795/#a77e

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Is anybody answering this question?

Daniel

[rtoy]

Imported from SourceForge on 2024-07-02 19:51:37 Created by robert_dodier on 2017-10-18 20:28:40 Original: https://sourceforge.net/p/maxima/bugs/2795/#f2e5

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 Hi all,

 I'm unable to solve this system with Maxima.
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 sol:solve([x=p*cos(q),y=p*sin(q)],[p,q]);
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-I get empty solution where it should be p=sqrt(x^2+y^2) and q=atan2(y,x)
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+I get empty solution where it should be `p=sqrt(x^2+y^2)` and `q=atan2(y,x)`.

 Any ideas?

[rtoy]

Imported from SourceForge on 2024-07-02 19:51:40 Created by robert_dodier on 2017-10-18 20:28:40 Original: https://sourceforge.net/p/maxima/bugs/2795/#78e6

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Fixed up formatting.