Crunch the numbers after a large operation

How do you get Matlab to crunch the numbers after a large operation? It leaves Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division and powers left undone. Some operations result in large numbers.

[James Tursa]

Huh? Crunch the numbers? You will need to provide many more details.

[Jan]

Are you talking about the symbolic toolbox? Do you want to get the result as a double value?

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[Image Analyst]

About all I can say is "you need to write code." It left them undone because there are no lines of code telling it to do those operations.

[Philosophaie]

Here is a line of MatLab results after a "solve":

    ax1 =

    (215777059516595623445914838916620106503782624244721500779209453399544298960742691772927990426547588067991936850343697629555135885774702769066595266406007347556619033459109869778585251/11560202591791457963241083962475262809484142331341794825326174080744775962481512912321151355998646166775426506614498620998724903760229691776046947611871233701127858318506699303674548584448+31621983338542387179597459751927/1223984059022740010852722668375098390049005388729104689056513010207978409892888707506526003986885200269799290290913925269405101908408147910468167810688978030788870144*2)^(1/2)^(1/3)

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

You can use vpa() or double() to see decimal approximations of them, but none of the approximations will be the complete answers.