Talk:Extraneous and missing solutions: Difference between revisions

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:::I don't think so; as I said before interpreting an equation in another ___domain does not amount (as I see it) to transforming it into another equation. In the context of [[elementary algebra]] in which this terminology is used the students probably haven't even been introduced to the notion of solving in other domains than the reals.  --[[User talk:Lambiam|Lambiam]] 00:56, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
 
::::Isn't it true that in your example above that x = -2 is not in the ___domain of x? [[User:Tparameter|Tparameter]] ([[User talk:Tparameter|talk]]) 14:11, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
 
== Is this an example of an extraneous solution? ==