Why is complex being deprecated again?

Lars T. Kyllingstad public at kyllingen.net
Mon Apr 16 01:17:34 PDT 2012


On Monday, 16 April 2012 at 06:06:12 UTC, Lars T. Kyllingstad 
wrote:
> How should the IEEE system be extended to the complex plane, 
> anyway?  If we look at the problem in terms of the cartesian 
> representation, we may want four infinities, namely:
>
>     infinity + i * infinity
>    -infinity + i * infinity
>     infinity - i * infinity
>    -infinity - i * infinity

Sorry, that would be eight.  I forgot

      infinity
     -infinity
      i * infinity
     -i * infinity

which seems to be what the comparison page calls for.

-Lars


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