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  2. Linear equation - Wikipedia

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    Vertical line of equation x = a Horizontal line of equation y = b. Each solution (x, y) of a linear equation + + = may be viewed as the Cartesian coordinates of a point in the Euclidean plane. With this interpretation, all solutions of the equation form a line, provided that a and b are not both zero. Conversely, every line is the set of all ...

  3. Overdetermined system - Wikipedia

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    This case yields no solution. Example: x = 1, x = 2. M > N but only K equations (K < M and K ≤ N+1) are linearly independent. There exist three possible sub-cases of this: K = N+1. This case yields no solutions. Example: 2x = 2, x = 1, x = 2. K = N. This case yields either a single solution or no solution, the latter occurring when the ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. System of linear equations - Wikipedia

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    When the equations are independent, each equation contains new information about the variables, and removing any of the equations increases the size of the solution set. For linear equations, logical independence is the same as linear independence. The equations x − 2y = −1, 3x + 5y = 8, and 4x + 3y = 7 are linearly dependent. For example ...

  6. 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 =), the operation of multiplying by () (+) would be a multiplication by zero. However, it is not always simple to evaluate whether each operation already performed was allowed by ...

  7. Underdetermined system - Wikipedia

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    All of these solutions can be characterized by first subtracting the first equation from the second, to show that all solutions obey z = 2; using this in either equation shows that any value of y is possible, with x = −1 − y. More specifically, according to the Rouché–Capelli theorem, any system of linear equations (underdetermined or ...

  8. List of unsolved problems in mathematics - Wikipedia

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    Many mathematical problems have been stated but not yet solved. These problems come from many areas of mathematics, such as theoretical physics, computer science, algebra, analysis, combinatorics, algebraic, differential, discrete and Euclidean geometries, graph theory, group theory, model theory, number theory, set theory, Ramsey theory, dynamical systems, and partial differential equations.

  9. Fermat's Last Theorem - Wikipedia

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    For example, the solutions to the quadratic Diophantine equation x 2 + y 2 = z 2 are given by the Pythagorean triples, originally solved by the Babylonians (c. 1800 BC). [27] Solutions to linear Diophantine equations, such as 26x + 65y = 13, may be found using the Euclidean algorithm (c. 5th century BC). [28]