Re: Bug in Solve?
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- Subject: [mg17476] Re: Bug in Solve?
- From: price at math.wisc.edu (Adam Price)
- Date: Sun, 9 May 1999 04:44:06 -0400
- Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison
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On 6 May 1999 03:12:29 -0400, Ilya Zavorine <iaz at cs.umd.edu> wrote:
>Solve[1+a*b+Sqrt[1+a^2]*Sqrt[1+b^2]== 0,a]
>
>{{a->b}}
>
>which is obviously wrong. Is this a Mathematica bug or
>am I doing something wrong?
If you are sure this is the wrong answer, then you are not entering the
equation properly. My pencil and paper agrees with what Mathematica tells
you.
-Adam