Re: Notation for Complex Conjugation
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- Subject: [mg46040] Re: Notation for Complex Conjugation
- From: Paul Abbott <paul at physics.uwa.edu.au>
- Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 18:20:46 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: The University of Western Australia
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In article <bvg0gf$qid$1 at smc.vnet.net>, alan heider <mathphysabs at yahoo.com> wrote: > I need to be able to write a function for c.c. that > simply places an overbar above a symbol or removes an > existing one, and especially needs to apply to > products of variables where one may have an overbar > and the other does not. There is no internal > representation of the variables such as a + ib, so > this is strictly a typesetting matter. Since you only want a format (for output only?) the following should do: Unprotect[Conjugate] Conjugate[z_] := OverBar[z] Protect[Conjugate] Conjugate[z] w Conjugate[%] Cheers, Paul -- Paul Abbott Phone: +61 8 9380 2734 School of Physics, M013 Fax: +61 8 9380 1014 The University of Western Australia (CRICOS Provider No 00126G) 35 Stirling Highway Crawley WA 6009 mailto:paul at physics.uwa.edu.au AUSTRALIA http://physics.uwa.edu.au/~paul