On 8/26/2013 6:04 AM, Karl-Dieter Crisman wrote:
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> . After all, one might have a LOT of things one would want to do with
> hundreds of variables;
There is a global symbol that is bound to a list of all the variables
used so far. This is "values".
> does one have to write a script that declares them all to be complex
> first?
If you have a list of such names, you can apply declare to them.
> It would be wonderful if there was some flag I don't know about that
> would just say all variables are complex in the sense that makes the
> above correct!
I think the understanding of complex variables is at best spotty, and if
you want to do "a LOT" of
things with them you better check out exactly what Maxima does, and
perhaps even make it work
with names that have no special properties.
RJF
>
> Thanks for any help here.
>
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