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Skip Montanaro
skip at mojam.com
Tue Oct 5 11:08:37 EDT 1999
Hrvoje> David Ascher <da at ski.org> writes:
>> So you want sqrt(-1) to always succeed? Brr..
Hrvoje> What's wrong with that? In Common Lisp, (sqrt -1) happily returns
Hrvoje> #C(0.0 1.0), and I don't see it as a bad thing at all.
Can't we get the behavior David described with
import cmath
math = cmath
or
from cmath import *
? I thought the reason that cmath was written (and kept distinct from math)
was so that existing code that expected math.sqrt(-1) to raise OverflowError
didn't suddenly begin "working".
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