Thread Subject: solve in R2008b; equation system

Is there a workaround to help R2008b find out that the following equation system does not have a solution?:

[x, y] = solve ('y = x', 'y = x + 1')
 
x =
 
-64.524771600278958160310513204172
 
 
y =
 
-64.024771600278958160310513204172

"Joerg Buchholz" <buchholz@hs-bremen.de> wrote in message
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> Is there a workaround to help R2008b find out that the following equation
> system does not have a solution?:
>
> [x, y] = solve ('y = x', 'y = x + 1')
>
> x =
>
> -64.524771600278958160310513204172
>
>
> y =
>
> -64.024771600278958160310513204172

Yes, the workaround is to report a bug to Mathworks :)

Nasser

The bug has not been fixed in R2009a.