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From:
RaFaL Pocztarski
Date:
October 10, 2001 08:16
Subject:
Re: NaN semantics
Message ID:
3BC46565.7159EADB@rfl.pl
Dan Sugalski wrote:
> At 08:37 AM 10/9/2001 -0700, Brent Dax wrote:
> >For consistency, I'd prefer to use is: 3+(2 is i).
>
> Well, the convention is suffixing an imaginary number with an i. I don't
> think we'd be too well served to go a different route.
So the imaginary numbers would be standard literals? Like
$x=2+10i;
Great idea, as well as sqrt(-1) returning 1i istead of raising the
exception. BTW, I was thinking once that numeral literals like 4k or 10G
(meaning 4*2**10, 10*2**30) would be very nice. What do you think?
- RaFaL Pocztarski, admin@rfl.pl
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