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Re: Why doesn't TrueQ return True here?

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  • Subject: [mg119758] Re: Why doesn't TrueQ return True here?
  • From: oleksandr_rasputinov at hmamail.com
  • Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 19:38:27 -0400 (EDT)
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> I would expect TrueQ to return True, not False. Why does it return False?

TrueQ returns True only for an explicitly True argument. That is,

TrueQ = (# === True)&

> And how can I test whether t2-t1 is positive?

For known (or assumed) t1 and t2:

TrueQ@Simplify@Positive[t2-t1]

If either t1 or t2 is undefined, the above returns False. If this is not what
you want, don't use TrueQ here.


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