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Re: x - real variable?

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  • Subject: [mg38193] Re: x - real variable?
  • From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
  • Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 03:29:31 -0500 (EST)
  • Organization: Universitaet Leipzig
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  • Reply-to: kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de
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Hi,

you can't because Mathematica knows nothing about data types.
You can Simplify[]/FullSimplify[] with Element[x,Reals]
and you can look what

Needs["Miscellaneous`RealOnly`"]

can do for you.
And you can say

x /: Im[x]=0
x /: Re[x]=x

Regards
  Jens

Aniruddha Chakraborty wrote:
> 
> Dear all,
> can any one tell me how can I define "x" , real variable?
> 
> thanks
> 
> aniruddha


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