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In mathematics, separation of variables is any of several methods of solving ordinary and partial differential equations, in which algebra allows to re-write an equation so that each of two variables occurs on only side of the equation and the other does not.

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In mathematics, separation of variables is any of several methods for solving ordinary and partial differential equations, in which algebra allows one to re-write an equation so that each of two variables occurs on only one side of the equation.

I have a problem with this edit. Suppose the equation is

This trivially becomes

Then clearly each of the two variables occurs on only one side of the equation. But the variables have not been separated! Michael Hardy 02:43, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

{{sofixit}}? I edited the copy of that sentence, not the content. It seems to me that neither the before nor the after clearly defines separation of variables. Starwiz 17:02, 18 February 2006 (UTC)