Simplest way to solve mathematical equations in Python

Question

I want to solve a set of equations, linear, or sometimes quadratic. I don\'t have a specific problem, but often, I have been in this situation often.

It is simple to

Answer 1

Well, I just googled into this page by accident. I see many suggestions regarding this and that software tool, but does any tool actually provide an answer? The actual answer is:

[a,b,c] = [200,375,425]

How did I get this? By writing a quick program in the Maxima programming language to find it via "brute force" searching. It only took about 10 minutes to write, seeing as how I'm familiar with the Maxima language. It took a few seconds for the program to run. Here is the program:

euler_solve():= block ( [ a, b, A, B, end:1000],

for a thru end do
    (
    for b thru end do
        (
        c: 1000 -a -b,
        if c < 0 then
            b:end
        else if a^2 + b^2 = c^2 then
            (
            A:a,
            B:b,
            a:end,
            b:end
            )
        )
    ),
return( [A,B,c])
);

You can just cut and paste the above code into the wxMaxima user interface, which I run under Ubuntu and not MS Windows. Then you just enter the function name: euler_solve(), hit return, wait a few seconds, and out pops the answer. This particular kind of problem is so simple that you could use any general-purpose programming language to do the search.