Hi, I am a total newcomer, and here is very simple high-school level question for which I could not find an answer in several hours of searching:
How can I use Sage to simplify ratios involving complex numbers? By simplify, I mean, to put into the canonical form a+b*i. For a very simple example: simplifying x=1/(1+i) would yield (1/2 - i/ 2) Note: this is simple to do by hand: multiply both numerator and denominator by the conjugate of the denominator. For my example, this leads to: x= (1-i)/[(1+i)(1-i)] x = (1-i)/[1^2-i^2] x = (1-i)/[1+1] x = (1-i)/2 x = 1/2 -i/2 I tried quite a number of things, none of which worked. Thanks, and sorry if my question is easy (well actually, I hope it's easy ;-) Jean-Denis from France --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
