Le 19/02/2012 22:58, Raymond Toy a ?crit :
> On 2/19/12 1:01 PM, Per Liss wrote:
>> simplified with the solution applied.
>>
>> The reason I want to use j is that it is common practice among
>> engineers, at least in electrical engineering, to use j instead of i as
>> imaginary unit and it would be a good idea to keep that practice in all
>> steps of the engineering processes instead of sometimes using i and
>> sometimes using j. (BTW it seems that both Mathematica and Maple provide
> As an EE, I never had problems switching between i and j, and none of my
> college friends seem to have had problems either. Perhaps because
> everyone was taking EE classes at the same time as math classes, so i
> and j were always in use at the same time. The only time it was
> confusing if someone wanted to use i or j as an summation index. (Which
> I always felt was a bad idea because j looks very much like i which
> looks like 1 at the small font sizes used for summation indices.)
>
> Besides, I don't hear much complaint from mathematicians that maxima
> uses %i instead of just i. :-)
>
> Ray
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I didn't like % (i j pi e) at the beginning as used wxmaxima but now I
think it's a good idea because i often use the same letters as variable !
I even used e:%e p:%pi i:%i french epi but i forget about that...
Thanks all for this good maxima tool :)