Re: [pure-lang-users] math.pure

[Albert G. <Dr....@t-...>]

Albert Graef wrote:
> Well, my definition of complex (^) of course computes all powers in 
> polar representation (and then converts them back to rectangular if 
> needed).

This is actually overkill, so I'm just using the plain ol' x^y = exp(ln 
x*y) now (after converting x to complex if necessary), that works just 
fine, computes the principle values and also treats the corner cases 
correctly. Problem solved. :)

Albert

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