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Re: Different cases in Solve

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• Subject: [mg89585] Re: Different cases in Solve
• From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
• Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 06:46:58 -0400 (EDT)
• Organization: Uni Leipzig
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• Reply-to: kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de

Hi,

Reduce[a x == b, x]

??

Regards
   Jens
Aaron Fude wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> When one does Solve[a x == b, x], one gets {{x -> b/a}}. How does one
> get Mathematica to give you different solutions depending on cases: b/
> a if a nonzero, any number if a==b==0, and no solutions if a=0 and b
> is nonzero?
> 
> Many thanks in advance!
> 
> Aaron
>