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Re: Sign Declaration

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  • Subject: [mg80282] Re: Sign Declaration
  • From: Bhuvanesh <lalu_bhatt at yahoo.com>
  • Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 04:52:52 -0400 (EDT)

Specifying the sign of an expression by using Sign[var]^=1 or x/:Sign[x]=1 is not recommended, as these have the potential to interact poorly with built-in functions. A better way is to use the assumptions mechanism:

In[1]:= $Assumptions = {Sign[x]==1};

In[2]:= Refine[Sign[x^2]]

Out[2]= 1

In[3]:= Simplify[Sign[x^2]]

Out[3]= 1

Bhuvanesh,
Wolfram Research


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