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What's going on here??

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  • Subject: [mg33502] What's going on here??
  • From: Mat Bowen <m.k.bowen at lboro.ac.uk>
  • Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 01:43:56 -0500 (EST)
  • Organization: Loughborough University, UK
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Hello,

I was getting weird results today and reduced the code producing them to
this:

Clear[a,b,c]
Simplify[5(a+a b-a(1+b))==0,{c>5}]

False


Surely that¹s not right?! Can anyone explain whats going on?

Thanks, and apologies if this is already known.

Mat Bowen
Department of Mathematics
Loughborough University



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