Re: different output!!
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- Subject: [mg97028] Re: different output!!
- From: dh <dh at metrohm.com>
- Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 06:30:34 -0500 (EST)
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Hi, this is simple. While e.g. 0.5 is be a solution of the former, it is no solution to the later. Daniel olfa wrote: > Hi Mathematica community, > Why output2 (with integers as domain) is different from output1 (with > reals as domain) ?!! I think it should be the same thing. > > input1:Reduce[{Mod[x, 5] == Mod[xP, 5], 0 <= xP < 5}, {xP}, Reals, > Backsubstitution -> True] > > output1: 0 <= Mod[x, 5] < 5 && xP == Mod[x, 5] > > input2:Reduce[{Mod[x, 5] == Mod[xP, 5], 0 <= xP < 5}, {xP}, Integers, > Backsubstitution -> True] > > output2: (Mod[x, 5] == 0 && xP == 0) || (Mod[x, 5] == 1 && > xP == 1) || (Mod[x, 5] == 2 && xP == 2) || (Mod[x, 5] == 3 && > xP == 3) || (Mod[x, 5] == 4 && xP == > 4) >