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Hi all, In trying to compare a student solution to the "book" solution for a function, I want to use FullSimplify[] to form a difference function to see whether the two forms are identical. But for these two functions of x>0 and y > 0, ...
Novice user here. I was about to show off Mathematica's RegionNearest[] function to a mathematics teacher when I ran into the following. To simplify, the problem statement is: Find the closest point on the parabola y=x^2 to the point (-1/2,4), in...