Re: [Maxima-discuss] Use Lisp complex numbers in Maxima?

[Stavros M. (Σ. Μ. <mac...@al...>]

That's a reasonable goal which should be easy to implement in the current
system (probably switch-controlled). I wonder — will some users prefer
(e.g.) (1+%i)/2 to 1/2+%i/2?

On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 2:51 PM, Robert Dodier <rob...@gm...>
wrote:

> On 2016-04-01, Barton Willis <wi...@un...> wrote:
>
> > CL complex numbers would automatically give us rectangular form for
> > complex number arithmetic. That would be nice.
>
> Yeah. I've always been annoyed that it's necessary to apply rectform to
> reduce stuff like (1 + %i)/(1 - %i). Complex literals which
> automatically simplify are tempting.
>
> best
>
> Robert Dodier
>
>
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