[PYTHON MATRIX-SIG] Re: Conversion

[Konrad Hinsen]

> 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

Exactly! This would be the most obvious solution. Another possibility
would be to have conjugate() in cmath (which is part of the standard
distribution), for those who use complex numbers but not NumPy.
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