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@@ -82,6 +82,14 @@ when they are used. To refer to the unevaluated symbol, put single quotes
 .RB ( ' )
 around the name, as demonstrated for the "unassign" command above.
 .PP
+Symbols are considered to be in the complex domain by default, i.e. they are
+treated as if they stand in for complex numbers. This behavior can be changed
+by using the keywords
+.BI real_symbols
+and 
+.BI complex_symbols
+and affects all newly created symbols.
+.PP
 The following symbols are pre-defined constants that cannot be assigned
 a value by the user:
 .RS
@@ -240,6 +248,12 @@ detail here. Please refer to the GiNaC documentation.
 .BI collect_distributed( expression ", " list )
 \- collects coefficients of like powers (result in distributed form)
 .br
+.BI collect_common_factors( expression )
+\- collects common factors from the terms of sums
+.br
+.BI conjugate( expression )
+\- complex conjugation
+.br
 .BI content( expression ", " symbol )
 \- content part of a polynomial
 .br
@@ -418,8 +432,7 @@ The command
 .RE
 prints the given
 .I expression
-in a way that can be used in a C or C++ program (complex numbers are not
-supported, though).
+in a way that can be used in a C or C++ program.
 .PP
 The command
 .RS
@@ -502,13 +515,15 @@ Christian Bauer <Christian.Bauer@uni-mainz.de>
 Alexander Frink <Alexander.Frink@uni-mainz.de>
 .br
 Richard Kreckel <Richard.Kreckel@uni-mainz.de>
+.br
+Jens Vollinga <vollinga@thep.physik.uni-mainz.de>
 .SH SEE ALSO
 GiNaC Tutorial \- An open framework for symbolic computation within the
 C++ programming language
 .PP
 CLN \- A Class Library for Numbers, Bruno Haible
 .SH COPYRIGHT
-Copyright \(co 1999-2002 Johannes Gutenberg Universit\(:at Mainz, Germany
+Copyright \(co 1999-2004 Johannes Gutenberg Universit\(:at Mainz, Germany
 
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