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)