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Re: Declaring Variables as Real?

• To: mathgroup at christensen.cybernetics.net
• Subject: [mg1218] Re: Declaring Variables as Real?
• From: RTighe at slac.stanford.edu (Richard Tighe)
• Date: Fri, 26 May 1995 01:49:52 -0400
• Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

In article <3prrks$533 at news0.cybernetics.net>, Lincoln Grimes
<lsgrimes at linus.mitre.org> wrote:

> I am evaluating some complex expressions with mma, and I want to be
> able to declare a variable as being real. I can do so for a single 
> expression with Complex Expand having no second argument, but I want to
be able
> to declare a variable as real for my entire notebook,so commands like
> Real and ComplexToTrig don't consider an imaginary part to my variables.  Is
> this possible?  Thanks.
> 
>                                                         Lincoln Grimes
>                                                         The Mitre Corp.
>                                                        
lsgrimes at linus.mitre.org

Use Im[var]^=0;

In[1]:= Re[x+I]

Out[1]= Re[x]

In[2]:= Im[y]^=0;

In[3]:= Re[y+I]
Out[3]= y



Richard Tighe
SLAC