Re: Is there way to use something like Assuming with the function SIgn?
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- Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 02:26:46 -0500 (EST)
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On 11/23/12 at 3:25 AM, emammendes at hotmail.com (Eduardo Mendes)
wrote:
>I was wondering there is something similar to what can be done with
>Integrate, Reduce and Limit. Something like
>list={1,-2,a,3}
>Assuming[a<0,Sign[list]]
>Mathematica returns {1,-1,Sign[a],1} and I would like to see
>something like {1,-1,-1,1}. Can that be done?
Assuming only affects the operation of a few functions in
Mathematica such as Simplify. So,
In[19]:= Clear[a];
list = {1, -2, a, 3};
Assuming[a < 0, Simplify[Sign[list]]]
Out[21]= {1,-1,-1,1}