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Re: NaN semantics

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From:
Dan Sugalski
Date:
October 9, 2001 07:42
Subject:
Re: NaN semantics
Message ID:
5.1.0.14.2.20011009104120.022f2810@pop.sidhe.org
At 09:33 AM 10/9/2001 -0500, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:
>On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 10:17:26AM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> > Depending on what Larry's planning, we may weld in support for imaginary
> > numbers. While they're mind-warping, in some ways they're better than
> > having a line labeled "Beyond here be dragons" or something.
>
>Neat. It'd be nice to have the "i" syntax as well: 3+2i
>
>I can hear the crys now though "Oh no! First ``x'', then ``v'', now
>``_'' and ``i''. Sheesh! When will it end?!?"  ;-)

r. When we allow Roman Numerals for constants we're doomed. :)

					Dan

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