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Legacy Documentation

The Mathematical Explorer^TM (2001)

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Re Re[ z ] gives the real part of the complex number z. Re[ expr ] is left unevaluated if expr is not a numeric quantity. See The Mathematica Book on the web:Section 1.1.5 and Section 3.2.2. See also: Im, Abs, Arg, ComplexExpand. Further Examples