modulo solving lacking domain?
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- Subject: [mg126840] modulo solving lacking domain?
- From: Richard Fateman <fateman at cs.berkeley.edu>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 02:59:17 -0400 (EDT)
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Solve[12*n==8,n,Modulus->20] returns {{n->4+5*C[1]}} It omits C[1] element of Integers. I doubt that this is a feature; is it a bug? C[1] is not necessarily a member of the finite field of integers modulo 20. It is obvious not an arbitrary Real.
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