Re: real variable
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- Subject: [mg32255] Re: real variable
- From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 23:37:09 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Universitaet Leipzig
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Hi,
Simplify[yourExpression,Element[x,Reals]]
?
Or the good old hard way
Unprotect /@ {Re, Im}
Re[a_.*x] := x*Re[a]
Im[a_.*x] := 0
Protect /@ {Re, Im}
x /: Arg[x] := 0
Regards
Jens
Nikolay Andreev wrote:
>
> Dear Mathgroup!
>
> How could one explain to Mathematica that variable x will be real during
> all the session, so if somewhere appear Conjugate[x] then this must be x,
> and Re[x+I*x] is x?
>
> Thank you,
> Nikolay
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> Steklov Institute of Mathematics
> Dep. of Function Theory
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