Re(best answer)
- To: mathgroup at christensen.cybernetics.net
- Subject: [mg584] Re[mg557] (best answer)
- From: wmm at chem.wayne.edu (Martin McClain)
- Date: Tue, 21 Mar 95 10:27:02 EST
> Does anybody know a core or standard package command that makes > transformations like (-1)^(3/4) -> (-1+I)/Sqrt[2] ? There was a simple answer to my question, supplied by Robby Villegas of WRI. Here it is: ComplexExpand. I missed it because there is nothing like ComplexExpand[(-1)^(3/4)] among the examples given in The Book. This is a really common need, and I hope it will appear as an example in future editions. Thanks, Robby, and also thanks to others who sent home-made operators that also do the job nicely. Martin McClain