number types
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- Subject: [mg21613] number types
- From: Naum Phleger <naum at cava.physics.ucsb.edu>
- Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 02:35:06 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
I feel sort of silly asking something that should be so clear but after
LOTS of trying I can't seem to get it right.
How can I make Mathematica know that a variable is real or positive so that
Conjugate[a] gives a
Sqrt[ a^2 ] gives a
when I evaluate integrals with a in them it doesn't give me an If statement
like
If[ Im[a]=0, answer I want , unevaluated integral ]
this seems like it should be easy but I nothing that I try ever works.
Thanks for any help.