Re: [q-lang-users] Complex numbers

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long-term suggestion made while strolling down the lane, whistling nonchalantly enjoying the spring flowers and sunshine:

 quaternions and octonians also as algebraic data types, together with the reals and the complexes under the class of the "Normed Algebras."  According to Hurwitz's theorem, these four are the only normed algebras (wishful thinking notwithstanding, there are no hexa-dekonians, or tri-deka-duonians, hexa-deka-tetronions, etc. :)

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-------------- Original message -------------- 
From: John Cowan <co...@cc...> 

> Albert Graef scripsit: 
> 
> > Also, I'm about to turn complex numbers into an algebraic type now. If 
> > anyone wants to complain, now is your last opportunity. ;-) 
> 
> Excellent. Just let me know when you've settled on the constructors 
> for rationals and rectangular complex numbers, and I'll make sure they 
> get into my Chicken egg appropriately. I've asked Felix for help on 
> the bignum issue. 
> 
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