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Question: Solving for function of float

Question:Solving for function of float

Preben Alsholm 13471
solve float
September 21 2014
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To me the following behavior of solve is surprising:

restart;
solve(f(0.5)=7,f(0.5)); #Output NULL
solve(f(1/2)=7,f(1/2)); #Output as expected 7

Debugging solve suggested to me that the following might work
solve(f(0.5)=7,f(1/2));
and indeed it did (outout the float 7.).
This behavior seems to have started in Maple 10. I checked Maple V,R3 and several other old versions including Maple 9.5. All behaved as I would have expected. MapleV,R3 gave the float 7. in the first case, the other the integer 7.
I take this to be a bug and shall file an SCR.
Any comments?
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