Complex conjugates



Henry Baker wrote

>Due to the amount of space taken up by Maxima writing out "conjugate(foo)" in full for every conjugated
>variable, I'd love to shorten this to " foo' " (or equivalent).  I'm not so worried about
>_input_ of conjugate as _output_.

> Is there any "easy"/"trivial" way to accomplish this in Maxima ?

Maybe an alias will work for you:

  (%i31) alias(cc,conjugate)$
  (%i32) declare(z,complex)$

  (%i33) conjugate(z);
  (%o33) cc(z)

By the way: I've had this same problem too.  Memory-wise, I think it doesn't make any difference, but for visually examining an
long expression, it can make a difference.

--Barton (author of conjugate)