On Wednesday 09 April 2003 04:33, Stavros Macrakis wrote:
> First of all, Maxima is case-sensitive (except -- inconsistently -- for
> built-in functions), so the function "conjugate" is not the same as the
> function "CONJUGATE". (I hope we will be fixing this for Maxima 6.0.)
> It turns out that the EIGEN package defines upper-case "CONJUGATE", not
> lower-case "conjugate", which is undefined.
I'm curious: do you plan to make Maxima 6.0 all case sensitive or all case
insensitive?
> What exactly is the problem you're trying to solve?
Well, I'm using Maxima to manipulate symbolic expressions (integrating them,
simplifying them, etc.) and since I'm working with complex variables I
often need complex conjugation. Currently I use
conj(x):=realpart(x)-%i*imagpart(x);
and this seems to work well. But complex conjugation is such a common
operation that it really needs to be build in.
Felix
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