Re: Solve weirdness again
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- Subject: [mg35088] Re: Solve weirdness again
- From: Peter <peter1963 at totalise.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 03:22:18 -0400 (EDT)
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Joshua A. Solomon wrote:
> There was a transcription error in my original message.
> Allow me to try again.
> Why doesn't
>
> Solve[{k*.01^p==10,k*.1^p==1},{k,p}]
>
> produce
>
> {{k->10.,p->-1.}}
>
> ?
>
> js
There are (at least) 2 reasons:
1. see Andrzej's posting
2. if it could handle these equations using Solve,
it should say
{{k->0.1,p->-1.}}
Peter