#12809: Solve does not give consistent results when a dummy variable is involved
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Reporter: afleckenstein | Owner: burcin
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-5.0
Component: symbolics | Resolution:
Keywords: solve | Work issues:
Report Upstream: N/A | Reviewers:
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Comment (by kcrisman):
This is a known issue - I won't call it a problem, though some people
(like the reporter) certainly have strong feelings on this. People have
tried to weasel out of it in changing doctests by putting ellipses in for
the variable names, but in the end it's better to show the end user
reading the documentation what a likely output actually looks like.
Concur that it's annoying for those writing doctests, but at least in one
opinion this is not really a bug.
That said, if we can be smart enough with Maxima and how it's naming these
dummy variables for this not to happen, or to return something different,
that would be great. But it's probably not worth the effort, given how
many actual enhancements or bugs we can fix instead :-)
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