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Re: i^2=1

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  • Subject: [mg129917] Re: i^2=1
  • From: "Dave Snead" <dsnead6 at charter.net>
  • Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 01:08:33 -0500 (EST)
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Define
i^2 ^= 1

Cheers,
Dave Snead

-----Original Message----- 
From: fc3a501 at uni-hamburg.de 
Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2013 11:19 PM 
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Subject: [mg129917] i^2=1 

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?

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





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