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 TAA12856; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 19:41:39 +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 TAA12851 for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 19:41:38 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from info.numeric-quest.com (info.numeric-quest.com [204.187.76.36]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with SMTP id f2RHfaT06930 for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 19:41:37 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (qmail 23829 invoked by uid 500); 27 Mar 2001 17:48:55 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 27 Mar 2001 17:48:55 -0000 Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 12:48:55 -0500 (EST) From: Jan Skibinski To: Markus Mottl cc: wester@ilt.fhg.de, caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Complex numbers in OCaml In-Reply-To: <20010327191938.A13345@miss.wu-wien.ac.at> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Markus Mottl wrote: > wester@ilt.fhg.de schrieb am Tuesday, den 27. March 2001: > > This works but is quite cumbersome to use. Is there any other way to > > do it and how can arrays of complex numbers be implemented efficiently > > in OCaml? > > It would be indeed nice to see Bigarrays support complex numbers so that > we can interface to more functions in Fortran-libraries... > Or not. :-) One of the articles by William Kahan (www.cs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/) "How JAVA's Floating-Point Hurts Everyone Everywhere" discusses (among other things) some traps in complex number implementations, including those in Fortran. Jan ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr. Archives: http://caml.inria.fr