Re: How to force Mathematica to treat a number as positive and real?
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- Subject: [mg51936] Re: How to force Mathematica to treat a number as positive and real?
- From: David Bailey <dave at Remove_Thisdbailey.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 02:17:59 -0500 (EST)
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Sorry, I notice that a special character in my reply has got scrambled
in the email.
The character in question is the one you obtain by typing \[Element]
So, for example I meant to write:
Simplify[{Abs[a], Re[a]}, Assumptions ->
{a \[Element] Reals, a >= 0}]
David Bailey