lol this is funny

[TrueTears]

Solve

Clearly something of the form will not have solutions.

But...





Thus

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What do we define in these situations?

[Mao]

Clearly something of the form will not have solutions.

For , yes, that would be true. If u happens to be 'infinity', or something ridiculous like that, it may well be possible that the statement is true.

When solving , remember the maximal domain is [maximal domain of tan(x)], and also [cannot divide by 0]

You need to be very careful in the statement that , the domain of these two functions are not the same, hence in this situation, not applicable.

So is there a solution to this? Limits would say yes, domain would say no. Practicality would say 'I don't care, why does it matter'.

[To '10 specialist students, don't worry if you cannot understand this now, you will soon ]

[TrueTears]

haha true.

In the case of the context where this question came from, I was actually sketching and wanted to find the turning points which lead to the equation which in this case I guess there would be solutions.

But yes if it was just purely solving then the domain definition would suffice and there would be no solutions for  

[Juddinator]

[quote[To '10 specialist students, don't worry if you cannot understand this now, you will soon ]
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Good to know!

[NE2000]

Think this discussion is relevant: http://vcenotes.com/forum/index.php/topic,10730.0.html

[TrueTears]

Yeah, it's pretty trivial actually, just different definitions. Whatever suits the concept, use that definition