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Question: Quadratic Solution??

Question:Quadratic Solution??

DavidMcClain 5 Maple 2024
solve
November 08 2024
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The other night, first time using Maple in more than 20 years, I asked for the solution to this, looking for u1 in terms of u2:

equ := u2 - u1/(-u1^2 + 1)

solve(equ, [u1])

==> u1 = (-1 + sqrt(4*u2^2 + 1))/(2*u2)

But this is sheer nonsense. The correct solution should be:

u1 = (-1 + sqrt(u2^2 + 1))/u2   ;; note the lack of 4x scaling inside the Sqrt, nor the 2x in the denominator.

What the heck??
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