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Re: defining variables as Real

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• Subject: [mg52873] Re: defining variables as Real
• From: "Drago Ganic" <drago.ganic at in2.hr>
• Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 04:27:04 -0500 (EST)
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Isn't that package now depreciated (because we now have the assumption 
mechanism)? It's interesting that it's still shipped with the production 
release.
drago

"Scout" <user at domain.com> wrote in message news:cpmik0$ofv$1 at smc.vnet.net...
> "symbio" <symbio at has.com> ha scritto nel messaggio
> news:cpjom6$nf1$1 at smc.vnet.net...
>> Is there anyway in Mathematica to define a variable as say Real or
>> Imaginary
>> or greater than zero, etc.. in the very beginning of all calculations and
>> keep it that way throughout, instead of having to use simplify with
>> assumptions each time?
>>
>
> Loading the package <<Algebra`ReIm`
> you can declare any symbol to have an imaginary or a real part of zero
> for a real or imaginary number rispectively.
> i.e. x /: Im[x] = 0  declares the symbol x that is now treated as a real
> number.
> Is that ?
>
> ~Scout~
> 

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