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Re: i^2=1

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  • Subject: [mg129918] Re: i^2=1
  • From: John Doty <noqsiaerospace at gmail.com>
  • Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 01:08:53 -0500 (EST)
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On Monday, February 25, 2013 12:19:06 AM UTC-7, fc3... at uni-hamburg.de wrote:
> No, not I^2=-1 :-)
> 
> But similarly: I'd like to have a symbol with the
> 
> property i^2=1. And not like slashdotting with
> 
> {i^2->1} (which then ignores i^3 and (i+1)(i-1)),
> 
> but really automatically i^2=1 as soon as it appears
> 
> somewhere, like for I.
> 
> 
> 
> How do I define that?

Use TagSet[]:

In[1]:= i/:i^2=1;
In[2]:= i^2
Out[2]= 1



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