Dear Maple-experts,

is there a function which returns the linear parts of an ODE?

So for example for the ODE:

ODE:= diff(x(t),t) + 3*x(t) + diff(x(t),t)*x(t)

which gives

diff(x(t),t) + 3*x(t).

My ODE is so large, that this cannot be done by hand.

Thank you very much,

Peter

Hi Maple experts,

is there a way to tell Maple, that it only gives me the first 10 solutions it finds.

My problem is, that I have an equation

eq := f(x,a,b)=0

with probably millions of solution pairs

(a_0 , b_0).

I use

solve(eq, {a,b} )

Therefore, maple thinks the whole night, fills 2Gb of memory untill I have to interruped the calculation.

Indeed I need only 1 nontrivial solution (a,b)  !