{"id":77,"date":"2009-05-30T21:58:51","date_gmt":"2009-05-31T04:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new-gro.dyn.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/?p=77"},"modified":"2014-07-22T16:36:07","modified_gmt":"2014-07-22T23:36:07","slug":"problem-from-mathematical-quickies-264-more-simultaneous-equations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/?p=77","title":{"rendered":"Problem from mathematical quickies &#8211; #264 &#8211; More simultaneous equations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, so I just ground through this solution long hand &#8211; which sucks because I am fairly sure there was some slick trick I was supposed to have seen here. All the problems in this book are searching for an\u00a0elegant\u00a0solution and this one is anything but. I should ask Konrad what I missed when he gets back.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_79\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-79\" style=\"width: 482px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-79   \" title=\"simultaneous_equation_mathematical_quickies_numb264_p11\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/simultaneous_equation_mathematical_quickies_numb264_p11.jpg\" alt=\"Solve the four equations with four unknowns\" width=\"482\" height=\"615\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-79\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Solve the four equations with four unknowns<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230;. and it keeps going, and going, and going&#8230;. I am really missing something here. This will give me the right solution but *ick*.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_80\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-80\" style=\"width: 476px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-80  \" title=\"simultaneous_equation_mathematical_quickies_numb264_p2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/simultaneous_equation_mathematical_quickies_numb264_p2.jpg\" alt=\"Solution continued\" width=\"476\" height=\"661\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-80\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Solution continued<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, so I just ground through this solution long hand &#8211; which sucks because I am fairly sure there was some slick trick I was supposed to have seen here. All the problems in this book are searching for an\u00a0elegant\u00a0solution and this one is anything but. I should ask Konrad what I missed when he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-algerbra","category-math"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1180,"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/1180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}