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Re: Solve bug in Mathematica 5

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  • Subject: [mg44025] Re: Solve bug in Mathematica 5
  • From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
  • Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 03:12:16 -0400 (EDT)
  • Organization: Universitaet Leipzig
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Hi,

{0,0,0,0} *is* the correct solution. You should use
Reduce[] and pic up one of the non- zero solutions.

Regards
  Jens

Artþras Acus wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> The following example demonstrates Mathematica 5.0 "improvements"
> in Solve.
> 
> lygtys2={E^(a*k*Cot[a*k])*Subscript[A, 1] - Cos[a*k]*Subscript[A, 2] +
> Sin[a*k]*Subscript[B, 2] == 0,
>  -(E^(a*k*Cot[a*k])*k*Cot[a*k]*Subscript[A, 1]) -
> k*Sin[a*k]*Subscript[A, 2] -
>    k*Cos[a*k]*Subscript[B, 2] == 0, Cos[a*k]*Subscript[A, 2] +
> Sin[a*k]*Subscript[B, 2] -
>    E^(a*k*Cot[a*k])*Subscript[B, 3] == 0,
>  -(k*Sin[a*k]*Subscript[A, 2]) + k*Cos[a*k]*Subscript[B, 2] -
>    E^(a*k*Cot[a*k])*k*Cot[a*k]*Subscript[B, 3] == 0}
> 
> Solve[lygtys2, {Subscript[A, 2], Subscript[B, 2], Subscript[B, 3],
> Subscript[A, 1]}]
> 
> gives {0,0,0,0}, thought equations are lineary dependent. 4.1 returns
> correct rezult.


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