Re: Questions about assumptions
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- Subject: [mg101792] Re: [mg101749] Questions about assumptions
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:03:53 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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Look up ComplexExpand in the docs. Alexander Erlich wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to make assumptions like e.g. Element[a,Reals] or b>0 or > simlar ones global in order to avoid using Refine with long assumption > lists every tome. For this purpose, I've found $Assumptions. But I > encountered the following problem: > > In[5]:= $Assumptions = Element[g, Reals] > > Out[5]= g \[Element] Reals > > In[6]:= Conjugate[g] > > Out[6]= Conjugate[g] > > Why didn't Mathematica just return g? > > Maybe, there is a different, or even better way to make assumptions > global to the whole notebook, so that they are considered > automatically (and without Refine or similar)? > > Regards, > > Alexander > -- Murray Eisenberg murray at math.umass.edu Mathematics & Statistics Dept. Lederle Graduate Research Tower phone 413 549-1020 (H) University of Massachusetts 413 545-2859 (W) 710 North Pleasant Street fax 413 545-1801 Amherst, MA 01003-9305
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- Questions about assumptions
- From: Alexander Erlich <alexander.erlich@gmail.com>
- Questions about assumptions