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False Positives for "Imaginary Part"

Open NV-Codes opened this issue 1 month ago • 1 comments

Version

MathCAT 0.7.5

Issue

MathCAT seems to treat any instance of "im" as "the imaginary part of" whatever it precedes, even when it simply refers to the product of i ($\sqrt{-1}$) and m (mass), as in the following:

$$ \hat{A} = \frac{1}{\sqrt{2m}} (\hat{p} - im\omega_0 \hat{x}) $$

I believe that the LaTeX command \Im (which is rendered as $\Im$) is typically used to indicate "the imaginary part of," so the inference may be unnecessary.

NV-Codes avatar Jan 06 '26 23:01 NV-Codes