Re: A strange bug in Solve
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- Subject: [mg24482] Re: A strange bug in Solve
- From: Warren Wolfe <"75127,1531"@compuserve.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 01:21:55 -0400 (EDT)
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Andrzej Kozlowski wrote:
> I have long ago learned to be careful when making claims about kernel bugs
> in Mathematica, but this time I am pretty sure I have found a fairly serious
> one, even though it looks rather strange.
>
> I asked Mathematica to solve a system of two trigonometric equations:
>
> In[1]:=
> eqns = {2*Cos[2*t]*Cos[u/2] + Cos[t]*Sin[u/2] == 0,
> (Cos[u/2]*Sin[t])/2 - (Sin[2*t]*Sin[u/2])/2 == 0};
>
> To my surprise Solve returned the empty list (I knew these equations do have
> solutions for geometric reasons):
>
> In[2]:=
> Solve[eqns, {u, t}]
> Out[2]=
> {}
>
When I tried this problem using Mathematica 3.0 for Windows it found 8 solutions
and also gave the Solve::ifun message. There was no need for Simplify.