That was a very complete reply, pagan, thank you.  It's good to know I'm not going crazy.

Thanks again,

Kevin

That was a very complete reply, pagan, thank you.  It's good to know I'm not going crazy.

Thanks again,

Kevin

I just tried your latest code snippet, and it still gives me a "solution" that doesn't satisfy the original equation.  What version of Maple are you using?  I'm on Maple 13.  Could be there's a bug that's been fixed.

Thanks for your help,

Kevin

I just tried your latest code snippet, and it still gives me a "solution" that doesn't satisfy the original equation.  What version of Maple are you using?  I'm on Maple 13.  Could be there's a bug that's been fixed.

Thanks for your help,

Kevin

Thanks for the expand/simplify trick, it does help get a cleaner expression.

It still doesn't make that solution from solve work in the original equation.  The original solution was:

After substitution back into the original equation and doing the simplification you provided, it gives

for the determinant, which is obviously not zero except for special values of x₂, l₁ and/or l₄ not provided in the solution from solve.

Thanks for the expand/simplify trick, it does help get a cleaner expression.

It still doesn't make that solution from solve work in the original equation.  The original solution was:

After substitution back into the original equation and doing the simplification you provided, it gives

for the determinant, which is obviously not zero except for special values of x₂, l₁ and/or l₄ not provided in the solution from solve.

I do have a chunk of processing that goes into forming the model, so I went the savelib/libname route.  This really helps streamline my work for me.

Thanks for all the help!  I really appreciate getting so many responses so quickly.

Kevin