[sage-support] Re: Setting symbol for imaginary unit?

[Tim Lahey]

On Dec 2, 2008, at 10:14 PM, Jason Grout wrote:

Tim Lahey wrote:

Hi,

The discussion of imaginary numbers reminded me of a
question I've had for some time. Is there a way to set
what's used for the imaginary unit? I often set it to
_j in Maple and I was wondering if there was any way to
do it in Sage.

Do you mean the variable that you use, or just how it is printed?


assignment:

sage: i = CC(I)

Now i is the CC i instead of the symbolic i.

If it's the variable that you use, then you can just set it using normal

Well, both actually. I'd prefer to use _j instead and have it
printed as that, because I'd like to use i (and I) for something
else.

Cheers,

Tim.

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Tim Lahey
PhD Candidate, Systems Design Engineering
University of Waterloo
http://www.linkedin.com/in/timlahey

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