Re: Different cases in Solve
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- Subject: [mg89595] Re: [mg89575] Different cases in Solve
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 05:29:24 -0400 (EDT)
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Reduce[a x == b, x]
(b==0&&a==0)||(a!=0&&x==b/a)
Aaron Fude wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When one does Solve[a x == b, x], one gets {{x -> b/a}}. How does one
> get Mathematica to give you different solutions depending on cases: b/
> a if a nonzero, any number if a==b==0, and no solutions if a=0 and b
> is nonzero?
>
> Many thanks in advance!
>
> Aaron
>
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