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by carlkcarlk 603 days ago
In school we learn to "solve" y = x² and get x = ±√y. But they never teach that (or why) you can't solve y = x −c sin(x) and get a nice equation. That's always bugged me. Instead of learning Galois theory, I cheated and used Python's free SymPy package to search for unsolvable equations.