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Re: Types in Mathematica thread

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• Subject: [mg62837] Re: Types in Mathematica thread
• From: Bill Rowe <readnewsciv at earthlink.net>
• Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 00:43:05 -0500 (EST)
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On 12/5/05 at 3:37 AM, hattons at globalsymmetry.com (Steven T. Hatton)
wrote:

>>4. There are other built in type tests that rely on other tests
>>than Head: NumberQ, NumericQ, IntegerQ, EvenQ, OddQ, PrimeQ;
>>ArrayQ, VectorQ, MatrixQ (for these there are nice element tests,
>>too), PolynomialQ (element tests). There are built in "structural"
>>tests, and I mention these for the reason mentioned next: SameQ,
>>UnsameQ, OrderedQ, MemberQ, FreeQ, MatchQ, ValueQ, AtomQ. With
>>these, argument-testing syntax is f[x_?testQ]. q.v. Section 2.3.5.

>RealQ?  Ironically that one seems to be missing.  Probably an
>intentional ommission. 

Perhaps. But it is easily added should you want a test for reals using the same syntax, e.g.,

RealQ[x_]:=Element[x,Reals]

will do the trick quite nicely.
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