Re:complex coefficients and rules...
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- Subject: [mg28247] Re:complex coefficients and rules...
- From: bghiggins at ucdavis.edu (Brian Higgins)
- Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 01:52:55 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: The Math Forum
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Richard, You might want to look at ComplexExpand function which assumes all variables are real In[8]:=ComplexExpand[Conjugate[Exp[-4*I*y]]] Out[8]=Cos[4*y] + I*Sin[4*y] or In[7]:=TrigToExp[ComplexExpand[Conjugate[Exp[-4*I*y]]]] Out[7]=E^(4*I*y) Cheers, Brian