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  • Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 02:19:38 -0500 (EST)
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No, not I^2=-1 :-)
But similarly: I'd like to have a symbol with the
property i^2=1. And not like slashdotting with
{i^2->1} (which then ignores i^3 and (i+1)(i-1)),
but really automatically i^2=1 as soon as it appears
somewhere, like for I.

How do I define that?

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Hauke Reddmann <:-EX8    fc3a501 at uni-hamburg.de
Die Weltformel: IQ+dB=const.



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