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  2. Extraneous and missing solutions - Wikipedia

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    Therefore, the solution = is extraneous and not valid, and the original equation has no solution. For this specific example, it could be recognized that (for the value x = − 2 {\displaystyle x=-2} ), the operation of multiplying by ( x − 2 ) ( x + 2 ) {\displaystyle (x-2)(x+2)} would be a multiplication by zero.

  3. Overdetermined system - Wikipedia

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    The system is inconsistent (no solution) if and only if the last non-zero row in echelon form has only one non-zero entry that is in the last column (giving an equation 0 = c where c is a non-zero constant).

  4. System of linear equations - Wikipedia

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    Every homogeneous system has at least one solution, known as the zero (or trivial) solution, which is obtained by assigning the value of zero to each of the variables. If the system has a non-singular matrix (det(A) ≠ 0) then it is also the only solution. If the system has a singular matrix then there is a solution set with an infinite number ...

  5. Consistent and inconsistent equations - Wikipedia

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    The system + =, + = has exactly one solution: x = 1, y = 2 The nonlinear system + =, + = has the two solutions (x, y) = (1, 0) and (x, y) = (0, 1), while + + =, + + =, + + = has an infinite number of solutions because the third equation is the first equation plus twice the second one and hence contains no independent information; thus any value of z can be chosen and values of x and y can be ...

  6. Proof of Fermat's Last Theorem for specific exponents

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    Therefore, to prove that Fermat's equation has no solutions for n > 2, it suffices to prove that it has no solutions for n = 4 and for all odd primes p. For any such odd exponent p, every positive-integer solution of the equation a p + b p = c p corresponds to a general integer solution to the equation a p + b p + c p = 0.

  7. Underdetermined system - Wikipedia

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    The homogeneous (with all constant terms equal to zero) underdetermined linear system always has non-trivial solutions (in addition to the trivial solution where all the unknowns are zero). There are an infinity of such solutions, which form a vector space , whose dimension is the difference between the number of unknowns and the rank of the ...

  8. Equation solving - Wikipedia

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    The solution set of a given set of equations or inequalities is the set of all its solutions, a solution being a tuple of values, one for each unknown, that satisfies all the equations or inequalities. If the solution set is empty, then there are no values of the unknowns that satisfy simultaneously all equations and inequalities.

  9. Cancelling out - Wikipedia

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    If b < 0: then cancelling out gives a ≤ 3 instead, because we would have to reverse the relationship in this case. If b is exactly zero: then the equation is true for any value of a, because both sides would be zero, and 00. So some care may be needed to ensure that cancelling out is done correctly and no solutions are overlooked or ...