error in syms line 56?

Question

Najmeh Eskandari 2018-6-17

回答： Ameer Hamza 2018-6-17

hi. I want to run syms x(t) but there is this error:

error using assignin(invalid variable name x(t) in assigne

error in syma line 56

for fixing this error I use this command:

which -all syms after running: D:\matlab\toolbox\maple\syms.m how can I fix this error?

Answer 1

Ameer Hamza 2018-6-17

It seems that this problem is happening because MATLAB is trying to use the Maple symbolic engine to perform the calculations. You can refer to answer and comments on this question to see how to activate Mupad or uninstall Maple symbolic engine: https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/276932-how-to-change-symbolic-solver-from-maple-to-matlab.