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Solve...or not

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• From: "Harker, Anthony" <a.harker at ucl.ac.uk>
• Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2012 03:20:08 -0400 (EDT)
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I've seen some discussion of Version 8's Solve[] in this group, but have I missed something explaining this?

  I have the following behaviour (both under Windows 7)


Mathematica 8.0.1.0

Solve[{(y-2)/(x-1)==1,y==0},x]
{}

Mathematica 7.0.1.0
Solve[{(y-2)/(x-1)==1,y==0},x]
{{x->-1}}

  Tony

Tony Harker
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