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Hrvoje Niksic
hniksic at srce.hr
Tue Oct 5 19:11:08 EDT 1999
David Ascher <da at ski.org> writes:
> On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Charles G Waldman wrote:
>
> > David Ascher writes:
> > >
> > > So you want sqrt(-1) to always succeed? Brr..
> >
> > Why would this be such a terrible thing? I'm not sure I see the
> > grounds for your shivering.
>
> Most of the folks I teach Python to have never heard of complex
> numbers, and they're not especially in a rush to learn about them.
Then they shouldn't be evaluating sqrt(-1). :-)
Seriously, how will somebody who has never heard (sic!) of complex
numbers care if some mathematical functions yield complex results?
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