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Re: Complex numbers in Mathematica

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• Subject: [mg61691] Re: [mg61647] Complex numbers in Mathematica
• From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
• Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 01:01:46 -0400 (EDT)
• Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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In the regular Mathematica, version 5.2 (NOT the Teacher's Edition), I get:

   Factor[(5 - 3I) + (-4 + I)x + (1 - I)x^2]
((1 + I) - I*x)*((1 - 4*I) + (1 + I)*x)

(output shown in InputFormat above).

Per Rønne wrote:
> If I write:
> 
> In[8]=Factor[(5 - 3I) + (-4 + I)x + (1 - I)x^2]
> 
> I get
> Nonreal::"warning": "Nonreal number encountered."
> Out[8]= Nonreal
> 
> The same with Sqrt[-1].
> 
> Why doesn't it show the complex numbers? According to the books it
> should - is it a matter of preferences set?
> 
> I'm using Mathematica Teacher's Edition 1.1 on MacOS X.

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  • Complex numbers in Mathematica
    • From: per@RQNNE.invalid (Per Rønne)