On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 7:13 PM, Robert Bradshaw
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Dec 29, 2008, at 1:07 PM, Robert Kern wrote:
>
>> Robert Bradshaw wrote:
>>> On Dec 29, 2008, at 12:45 PM, Lisandro Dalcin wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 5:42 PM, Robert Kern
>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> You might want to follow numpy's lead and define complex64 (float
>>>>> complex),
>>>>> complex128 (double complex), etc.
>>>>>
>>>> I really like your idea... Let's see what other people think about
>>>> this...
>>>
>>> Yes. Note that "double complex" typically means a complex with
>>> double-
>>> prec real and imaginary parts, not 128 bits.
>>
>> Right. numpy goes with the convention that the bit-width suffix is
>> the width of
>> the entire item, not the component real and imaginary parts for the
>> complex type.
>
> Ah, good. Thanks for the clarification.
>

However, remember this...

sizeof(float) <= sizeof(double) <= sizeof(long double)




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