On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 2:27 AM, Chris Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> Frédéric Grosshans-André wrote:
>> Le mardi 26 avril 2011 à 11:38 +0545, Chris Smith a écrit :
>>> Haz wrote:
>>>>>  If the solutions to solve are uncountable then you can't "yield an
>>>>> infinite number of dictionaries, each corresponding to one of the
>>>>> infinite solutions" since some solutions will never be yielded.
>>>
>>> Can you give an example?
>>
>> A simple example would be x**2+y**2 == 1 , which gives uncountably
>> many solutions for (x,y).
>>
>
> But solve doesn't handle such cases. Shouldn't this be a different function 
> than solve?

I think even Wolfram Alpha doesn't seem to handle such case:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Solve[x**2+%2B+y**2+%3D%3D+1%2C+{x%2C+y}]


Ondrej

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