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• Subject: [mg49912] Reduce/Solve
• From: "Dr A.H. Harker" <a.harker at ucl.ac.uk>
• Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 09:22:47 -0400 (EDT)
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Dear All,
         I tend to think of Reduce as a more powerful tool than Solve,
yet with

eq = J == J0 (1 + r/d) Exp[-r/d]
ss = Solve[eq, r]
tt = Reduce[eq, r]

 I get useful output from Solve, but Reduce returns the expression
unevaluated. What am I missing?  Mathematica 5.0.0.0 under Windows XP.

       Tony 

 Dr A.H. Harker
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