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The Mathematical ExplorerTM (2001)

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Complexes

  • Complexes represents the domain of complex numbers, as in x Complexes.
  • x Complexes evaluates immediately only if x is a numeric quantity.
  • Simplify[ expr Complexes] can be used to try to determine whether an expression corresponds to a complex number.
  • The domain of real numbers is taken to be a subset of the domain of complex numbers.
  • Complexes is output in TraditionalForm as .
  • See The Mathematica Book on the web:Section 3.3.10.
  • See also: Element, Simplify, NumberQ, NumericQ, Complex, Reals.