Hi, This is from sage-support
On Sep 1, 11:35 pm, Mani chandra <mchan...@iitk.ac.in> wrote: > -------- sage: x = a + I*b sage: real(x.conjugate().simplify()) real_part(a) + imag_part(b) sage: real(x.conjugate()) real_part(a) - imag_part(b) --------- This seems to be happening because maxima(via simplify) treats variables as real whereas pynac treats as complex. ---------- sage: x.conjugate() conjugate(a) - I*conjugate(b) sage: x.conjugate().simplify() a - I*b ---------- William mentioned in this thread http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support/browse_thread/thread/7bf451cf8202e085/10e81a803518f17c that Sage does attempt to make default domain for maxima to be complex. So something must be going horribly wrong. Here is the trac ticket http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/6862 Cheers, Golam --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
