[PYTHON MATRIX-SIG] Re: Conversion

[Geoffrey Furnish]

Guido van Rossum writes:
 > I have a feeling that for orthogonality, conjugate() should have to be
 > a built-in function (like abs()); and that there should be some other
 > built-in function (angle()?) that returns ``the other polar
 > coordinate'' so that (abs(z), angle(z)) are an alternate
 > representation of z.  But you can tell that I'm not a complex number
 > expert :-)

That should be "arg(z)", I think.

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