Complex number functions for std.math
Anders F Björklund
afb at algonet.se
Mon Apr 10 00:01:52 PDT 2006
Don Clugston wrote:
> I completely agree with Walter that 'extended' was a dreadful name for
> 80 bit floats. I really like 'real'. But since it's not a fixed size,
> it's behaving exactly like an alias. It would be natural to have
> corresponding aliases for 'imaginary' and 'complex'.
"extended" is the name of the FP format, though ? But maybe it needed a
spiffier name, like "ext" (just like "quadruple" is shortened to "quad")
And "extended" isn't that much worse than "long double", is it... ? :-)
--anders
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