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Re: Solve chokes on Piecewise input that Reduce handles quite well??

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• Subject: [mg72027] Re: [mg72007] Solve chokes on Piecewise input that Reduce handles quite well??
• From: "Chris Chiasson" <chris at chiasson.name>
• Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2006 06:09:34 -0500 (EST)
• References: <200612081117.GAA20182@smc.vnet.net>

On 12/8/06, Andrzej Kozlowski <akoz at mimuw.edu.pl> wrote:
> Solve is meant for solving algebraic equations over the
> complex numbers and what you have got are inequalities, which do not

That may be Solve's main (and best) technique, but it also has other
capabilities - inverse function handling for instance. It's not like
they chose to call it AlgebraicEqualitySolve.


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