Important: The student package has been deprecated. Use the superseding command Equate instead.

This procedure is used to construct a set of equations by comparing the components of compound objects such as a lists, vectors or matrices of expressions.

If A and B are both lists with the same number of elements then the resulting equations are  

Vectors and matrices are converted to lists prior to constructing the set of equations.

If the second argument B consists of a single algebraic expression or a list with a single element then the corresponding list is extended by repetition to the length required for a proper comparison with A.

If there is no second argument B it defaults to the value 0.

If the first argument A includes equations, the second argument is used only to convert the non-equation components of A into equations.   In this case B must be a list of length 1.

The command with(student,equate) allows the use of the abbreviated form of this command.