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Re: confused about asserting variable is element of Reals

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  • Subject: [mg103141] Re: confused about asserting variable is element of Reals
  • From: AES <siegman at stanford.edu>
  • Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 04:42:53 -0400 (EDT)
  • Organization: Stanford University
  • References: <200909070636.CAA04019@smc.vnet.net> <h859vn$q48$1@smc.vnet.net>

In article <h859vn$q48$1 at smc.vnet.net>,
 Leonid Shifrin <lshifr at gmail.com> wrote:

> When you enter Element[a, Reals], this by itself does nothing. It does not,
> in particular, change  any global property of symbol <a>.
> 
> However, this expression can be used in
> commands like Simplify, FullSimplify, etc., to give them the information
> that <a> should be considered real (in that particular computation):

So, could one ever write Assumptions -> Element[I, Reals]  in any of 
those commands?


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