[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.

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       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.
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