This system was solved in May 2020, using solveSystem in Macaulay2 v1.15 with an Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4258U CPU at 2.40GHz.
There were 6 solutions found in 1.24877 seconds (with a Bezout bound of 108).
Reference: Keith Meintjes and Alexander P. Morgan, "Chemical equilibrium systems as numerical test problems", ACM Toms, Vol 16, No 2, 143-151, 1990.
See also: http://homepages.math.uic.edu/~jan/Demo/chemequ.html
i1 : chemequ(CC_53) 2 2 o1 = {y y + y - 3y , y y + 2y y + .000001923y + .00054518y y + 1 2 1 5 2 3 1 2 2 2 3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2 2 .000034074y y + y + 4.4975e-7y - 10y , 2y y + .00054518y y + .386y 2 4 1 2 5 2 3 2 3 3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2 2 + .00041062y - 8y , .000034074y y + 2y - 40y , y y + y y + 3 5 2 4 4 5 2 3 1 2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2 2 2 9.615e-7y + .00054518y y + .193y + .000034074y y + y + y + 2 2 3 3 2 4 4 1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4.4975e-7y + .00041062y - 1} 2 3 o1 : List |
The object chemequ is a method function.