Ah, but the concept is sound, I think. One just needs to be more careful in the implementation.
Given that this program was designed to solve "high school algebra," it's not surprising that the author chose to ignore complex variables, for better or for worse. Aaron Meurer On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 6:15 AM, Richard Fateman <fate...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Wednesday, May 28, 2014 9:16:46 PM UTC-7, Aaron Meurer wrote: >> >> How does it return invalid results? Does it not check if spurious >> solutions were introduced through multiplying both sides of an >> equation? >> >> yes. > > Also, if one is inclined to say that computer programs "know" things, then > computer programs presumably are "ignorant of" things. > In which case I think one would say that this program is ignorant of > complex variables. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sympy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to sympy@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/ebdacb2f-d41b-44cf-ba1d-9259ef825e1d%40googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sympy@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAKgW%3D6LkAJqQ4i%3DwtTpFVCcP%2BJ3sijf6F7bV5jAveoqDZGJu3Q%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
