# Can you obtain the solution of an ODE symbolically in Julia?

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**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** question, symbolics\
**Created:** [November 21, 2022, 11:56am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/can-you-obtain-the-solution-of-an-ode-symbolically-in-julia/90583 "2022-11-21T11:56:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![RayleighLord](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/rayleighlord/32/33592_2.png) [@RayleighLord](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/RayleighLord)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2022, 11:56am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/can-you-obtain-the-solution-of-an-ode-symbolically-in-julia/90583/1 "2022-11-21T11:56:28Z")

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I would like to know if it is currently possible to solve an ODE symbolically in Julia using some of the packages of the SciML organization.

The tutorials show that you can define a system symbollically and then solve it numerically, but I want to know if the other functionality is (or will be) available.

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**Author:** ![ChrisRackauckas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/chrisrackauckas/32/77_2.png) [@ChrisRackauckas](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ChrisRackauckas)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2022, 4:07pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/can-you-obtain-the-solution-of-an-ode-symbolically-in-julia/90583/2 "2022-11-21T16:07:25Z")

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> [@RayleighLord](#):
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> I would like to know if it is currently possible to solve an ODE symbolically in Julia using some of the packages of the SciML organization.

It doesn’t exist yet. SymPy for now. When it exists, I’d hope to expose this through ModelingToolkit so an ODESystem can give the analytical solution and if you solve one with an analytical solution it would just bypass the solver.