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Re: Reduce[] in version 5.1

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• Subject: [mg52755] Re: Reduce[] in version 5.1
• From: "Frank Kampas" <fkampas at verizon.net>
• Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 05:23:10 -0500 (EST)
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Use the Reduce option Backsubstitution -> True

"Gianluca Gorni" <gorni at dimi.uniud.it> wrote in message 
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>
> Hello!
>
> In Mathematica 5.1 I get the following result from Reduce:
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> Reduce[{x^2 - y == 2, x + y == 0}, {x, y}]
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> (x == -2 || x == 1) && y == -x
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> Sincerely, I preferred the output of version 4.2:
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> x==-2 && y==2 || x==1 && y==-1
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> To recover this good old form in 5.1 I have to Reduce[] twice:
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> Reduce[Reduce[{x^2 - y == 2, x + y == 0}, {x, y}]]
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> I think wri should work on this for the next version.
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> Best regards,
>
> Gianluca Gorni
>