Opened an issue as suggested. https://github.com/JuliaSymbolics/Symbolics.jl/issues/718
I wanted to translate this
To Julia. So Installed symbolics, defined x but get an error. The following is the code
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julia> using Symbolics
julia> @variables x
1-element Vector{Num}:
x
julia> sqrt(-im+x)
ERROR: TypeError: non-boolean (Num) used in boolean context
Stacktrace:
[1] sqrt(z::Complex{Num})
@ Base ./complex.jl:501
[2] top-level scope
@ REPL[3]:1
julia>
Noticed that im+x works. But sqrt(im+x) gives the error.
What is the problem and is there a workaround?