[m-dev.] complex numbers
Tyson Richard DOWD
trd at cs.mu.oz.au
Wed Jul 16 18:06:26 AEST 1997
Fergus Henderson wrote:
> (For consistency with the other short names used in this module:
> arg[ument], imag[inary_part] real[_part], and sqrt [instead of square_root].
> Mathematicians seem to prefer short names. :-)
Job security, no doubt.
--
Tyson Dowd # 4.4: People keep saying the behavior is undefined,
# but I just tried it on an ANSI-conforming compiler
trd at cs.mu.oz.au # and got the results I expected.
http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~trd # A: They were wrong. Flame them mercilessly. C-IAQ
More information about the developers
mailing list