On Jan 5, 2008 12:39 PM, Jordi Guti?rrez Hermoso <jordigh at gmail.com> wrote:
Is there an easy way to get Maxima to say that (1-i)/(1+i) = i?
No, I'm afraid not. Perhaps because it is actually -i. :-)
Remember that Maxima represents sqrt(-1) as %i:
rectform((1-%i)/(1+%i)) => -%i
Another way is:
rat((1-%i)/(1+%i)), algebraic => -%i.
-s