Spurious solution out of the blue
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- From: carlos.felippa%colorado.edu at gtempaccount.com
- Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 03:01:47 -0400 (EDT)
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Running under Mathematica 5.2: ClearAll[y,x2,x3]; y=(12*x2*(150 - x2 + 4*x3 + 4*Sqrt[30]*Sqrt[30 - x2 + 4*x3]))/ (7*x2 - 8*(45 + 2*x3 + 2*Sqrt[30]*Sqrt[30 - x2 + 4*x3]))^2; y=Simplify[y]; sol=Simplify[Solve[y==0,x2]]; Print[sol]; Print[Simplify[y/.sol]]; There are two solutions but the nonzero one is incorrect. Where does the spurious solution come from? I get the same result by solving Numerator[y]==0.