Complex conjugates



Henry Baker <hbaker1 <at> pipeline.com> writes:

> 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_.

Maybe this is enough:

:lisp (setf (get '$conjugate 'dissym) '(#\'))
:lisp (setf (get '$conjugate 'dimension) 'dimension-postfix)

then

declare (z, complex);
conjugate (z);
 => z'

Disclaimer: I didn't try other cases.

HTH

Robert Dodier