Re: What should "solving" really mean, some literature.

Good day Richard,

Then, let's produce the complex solutions. End of story.

For exp(a * x) = c * exp(b * x), let's printout all possible solutions 
if finding only the real solutions (like some other tools do) is a bad idea.

But then, if in turn, I don't want people to use that excuse later to 
say "wait! maxima can't solve with exp because exp is not one-to-one!".


> I think it is a bad idea.  There are many computations in which
> a real input produces a real output, but the intermediate expressions
> are complex.



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