From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id JAA24451; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 09:37:39 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA24447 for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 09:37:38 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from maynard.mail.mindspring.net (maynard.mail.mindspring.net [207.69.200.243]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id f2S7bbP21637 for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 09:37:37 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from dylan (1Cust105.tnt4.tucson.az.da.uu.net [63.11.145.105]) by maynard.mail.mindspring.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with SMTP id CAA13909 for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 02:37:35 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <003b01c0b75a$018de530$210148bf@dylan> From: "David McClain" To: Subject: [Caml-list] Complex Arithmetic Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 00:37:52 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk ...however... the fact that so many scientists and engineers use the "broken" code in Fortran and other languages demonstrates 1. Few if any scientists understand this arithmetic 2. Few if any do conformal mapping where its "broken-ness" would become immediately apparent 3. Nearly all applications of complex arithmetic are of a nature in which these broken elements do not contribute. E.g., impedance calculations, phasor relations, FFT analyses, etc. So what!? (I still like having a correct implementation...) - DM ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr. Archives: http://caml.inria.fr