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- Subject: Re: unexpected result
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- From: a_rubin@dsg4.dse.beckman.com (Arthur Rubin)
- Date: 27 Jan 93 23:04:22 GMT
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- In <rvk.728154627@wink> rvk@blink.att.com (Bob Kline) writes:
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- > Running mma 2.1 on a Sparc-2, I input the following:
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- > Solve[{Sqrt[x]+y==11,x+Sqrt[y]==7},{x,y}].
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- > this results in four roots. substituting the result in
- > Sqrt[x]+y (or Sqrt[y]+x), only two of the roots are
- > correct. the other two are numbers like 14.nnn and 17.nnn.
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- Try setting the option VerifySolutions-> True.
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- By default, mma solves the equations:
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- {u^2 ==x,u+y==11,v^2==y,x+v==7}
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- and eliminates u and v. For the remaining solutions, u and/or v is
- negative.
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