Re: declaring variables
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- Subject: [mg4761] Re: declaring variables
- From: vvs124 at rsphy1.anu.edu.au (Victoria Steblina)
- Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 13:54:47 -0400
- Organization: Australian National University
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
dh61 at rs3.hrz.th-darmstadt.de (Burkhardt Goedde) wrote:
>Dear math users,
>just a simple problem, but I got no answer from thew book.
>Re[x + I y] gives
>Re[x + I y]
>whereas
>Re[2 + 3 I]
>gives 2
>How could I tell Mathematica that x and y are real numbers?
There is a package <<Algebra`ReIm` that lets you specify that given
variables are purely real. Try the following:
In[5]:= Needs["Algebra`ReIm`"]
Im[x]^=0;
Im[y]^=0;
Re[x + I y]
Im[x + I y]
Out[8]= x
Out[9]= y
The up definitions make the assignment associated with x and y rather
than
with Im...
Hope this helps
Vicki
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