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From: "Steven Lord" <slord@mathworks.com>
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Subject: Re: Real and imaginary parts of symbolic expression
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 10:49:31 -0400
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"Walter Roberson" <roberson@ibd.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca> wrote in message 
news:g4lm76$q9h$1@canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca...
> In article <g4kl0p$k1c$1@fred.mathworks.com>,
> Emeka Obe <obeway@gmail.com> wrote:

*snip*

> I do not have the symbolic toolbox, so I do not know what the
> syntax is for providing assumptions. In the base Maple engine
> which underlies the symbolic toolbox, the way I would code would be
> (in Maple code!):

The syntax for assuming that x, y, and n are real symbolic variables is:

syms x y n real

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Steve Lord
slord@mathworks.com