Re: [Axiom-mail] complex numbers

[Bob McElrath]

Andrea Bedini address@hidden wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm just learning how to do some computations with Axiom, but I've a
> problem with complex numbers.
> 
> Why this evalutate to zero ?
> 
> (199) -> A: Complex Polynomial Integer
>                                                                    Type: Void
> (200) -> A*conjugate A - A^2
> 
>    (200)  0

Definitely wrong.  It looks like the source of the problem is:

(18) -> conjugate(a)

   (18)  a
                                             Type: Complex Polynomial Integer

Cheers,
Bob McElrath [Univ. of California at Davis, Department of Physics]

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