power TypeErrors

[Andrew MacIntyre]

On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Michael Hudson wrote:

> For all my mathematical leanings, I still don't really see the point
> of having complex numbers native to a language.  The only other
> language that springs to mind with them is CL, and I don't think
> anyone uses them there, either.  OTOH, I guess it's an "if you need
> it, you need it" thing -- I could probably cope if Python didn't have
> floats :)

Never encountered Fortran? (which had COMPLEX a long time ago...)

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