Incomparable abominations

Paul Moore gustav at morpheus.demon.co.uk
Sun Mar 23 15:29:32 EST 2003


Niki Spahiev <spahievi at vega.bg> writes:

> 3/23/2003, 6:17:08, Tim Peters wrote:
>
> TP> Yes, but what of it? Do you actually sort lists containing
> TP> complex numbers? If so, I do believe you'll be the first to
> TP> claim such a hobby.
>
> I do. It's easiest way to get point on the convex hull of point set. 
> (point === complex).

Why not point === tuple of 2 co-ordinates? What do complex numbers
gain you (given that they don't give you sorting properties...)

Paul.
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