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Re: very odd failure of Solve

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  • Subject: [mg131845] Re: very odd failure of Solve
  • From: Itai Seggev <itais at wolfram.com>
  • Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 05:01:16 -0400 (EDT)
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> On Wednesday, September 18, 2013 6:12:34 AM UTC-4, da... at wolfram.com wrote:
> > It does seem to involve ordering. If instead of "a+c" one has "y+c" then
> > Solve handles it. The underlying issue is some simplifying that produces,
> > or not, a "nice" form of intermediate expression. This was also recently
> > reported in the Mathematica stackexchange forum.
> >
> > http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/25182/variable-naming-chan
> >ges-everything
> >
> > I hope to find time to investigate further, some day.
>
> Thanks for the link. Looking forward to a resolution.
> Alan Isaac

I'm please to report that this particular issue is fixed in our internal build, 
so the next release will resolve it.

-- 
Itai

Itai Seggev
Software Technology



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