Per Liss <maillistor-cas at yahoo.se> writes:
> After reading and introductory textbook, I have been now spent some
> time finding information on the Internet on how to make Maxima using
> the letter "j" as the imaginary unit in order not to make confusion
> with the symbol "i" for current. I would like Maxima not only to
> understand input using "%j" which I believe could be done by defining
> a constant, but also produce outputs using "j" instead of "i". My
> final goal is to find a way to permanently configure my installation
> to use the letter j.
The symbol %i is hard-coded throughout the source, so I'm pretty certain
you just can't. However, %i is not the same as I or i, so I shouldn't
think it's all that confusing seeing two of them in the same expression.
If you want to be able to enter things using %j, you could start with
the line
%j: %i;
But any calculation producing the imaginary unit will display as %i. If
you've an expression that you want to eyeball without those distracting
%i symbols, you could always do
subst ('%j, %i, myexpr);
which will replace them for you.
Frankly, I'm not convinced it's worth the effort.
Rupert
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