On May 15, 7:28 pm, rjf <fate...@gmail.com> wrote: > squaring both sides of an equation often produces extraneous > "solutions" as you've illustrated. > Maxima's solve program produces the illustrated form when it cannot > solve any better. It is presumably a feature. > > Also a feature: It does not produce extraneous solutions and check > them afterwards, at least by default. > > If you want solve to do something else, you are free to do something > else which such a result, including calling other methods. > > I'm not sure that this is an appropriate thread for "sage-devel" since > it has the form of a "bug report". Even if the > result is kind of expected.
Well, there are plenty of development discussions that start and stay on sage-support. I don't see these as being 100% exclusive categories - as opposed to sage-edu or sage-marketing, where support questions of this type really don't belong, and from which we usually forward discussions of that type. - kcrisman -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
