22 Sep
2015
22 Sep
'15
9:55 p.m.
On 9/22/2015 11:22 PM, ben wrote:
On 9/22/2015 10:08 PM, Jay Jaeger wrote:
What confused me is what was meant by "compled err". Say what? Huh?
Anyway, I addressed in another response just how trivial it would be to
define a complex number as a C "struct", and write a set of routines for
the necessary manipulations (arithmetic operators,
input/output/transformation from and to strings, etc). In C++ one could
even overload the normal arithmetic operators for that. Not an issue at
all.
Indeed a definition and set of routines to do the computational part of
a "complex" data type exists in the book "Numerical Recipes in C".
Takes all of 3 pages.
JRJ
On 9/22/2015 10:44 PM, ben wrote:
Often real problems need complex numbers. Comp Sci often ignores real life
problems. Ben.
On 9/22/2015 7:31 PM, Jon Elson wrote:
Huh? So, B was never actually a FORTRAN compiler, just
Ken started thinking
about FORTRAN grammar and within one DAY took off in a different
direction. By that time (1969 or so) FORTRAN was a really old
language, and considered way out of date by most universities' Comp Sci
departments.
Until you needed compled err complex numbers.
Ben.