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1-Visitor
November 22, 2018
Question

I can not use mathematic expression with "j" ( complex number)

  • November 22, 2018
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Hi all 

I am doing a calculation of RLC circuit in MathCAD, but I am facing to a problem with usage of "i" ( notation of complex number) as shown bellow:

Image 26.png

Please help me to treat this . 

 

Best regards,  

10 replies

12-Amethyst
November 28, 2018

Hi. In Mathcad imaginary unit is 1i or 1j, but shows just i or j.

 

Best regards.

Alvaro.

24-Ruby IV
November 28, 2018

Mathcad Prime - new in complex number formatting

i-prime.png 

24-Ruby IV
November 28, 2018

I have seen a lot of Mathcad-sheets with:

ii.png

 

24-Ruby IV
November 28, 2018

See please - with units

fre.png

1-Visitor
December 27, 2018

Works for me if I define j  as the square root of -1

25-Diamond I
December 27, 2018

@W3EO wrote:

Works for me if I define j  as the square root of -1


In real Mathcad (=MC15 and below) I would strongly advise against doing so, but in Prime I have to admit that the imaginary unit displayed as 1j or 1i simply looks too ugly and so I understand that defining j:=1i or something like that makes sense.

1-Visitor
December 30, 2018

Yes, in "Real" Mathcad 🙂 I'll never assimilate the Primes. I have always defined the imaginary constant explicitly, as it gives me the confidence that I'm using the values I want. Why do you think this is bad practice?