Speaking as someone who's also not a top-notch coder, it might be easier
than you think. It's so easy to create types in Julia that with a few
basics and some Googling, you can do quite a bit. You can also start small
just to experiment.
On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 8:44 AM, Ed Scheinerman <
edward.scheiner...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Wow! Thanks everyone for the thoughtful replies. It seems that the way to
> go is to create an alternative to Complex{T} types in which there is but a
> single ComplexInfinity. This would be an interesting project but I'm not a
> top-notch coder ... perhaps someone would like to take it on. When they do,
> creating polynomial and rational function types that properly handle
> complex infinity would be good too. That way f(x) =(2x-1)/(x+1) would
> evaluate f(Inf) as 2. :-)
>
>
> On Saturday, January 10, 2015 at 7:55:09 AM UTC-6, Ed Scheinerman wrote:
>>
>> Is there a way to have a single complex infinity? This may come at the
>> cost of computational efficiency I suppose, but I can think of situations
>> where all of the following give the same result:
>>
>> julia> (1+1im)/0
>> Inf + Inf*im
>>
>> julia> 1im/0
>> NaN + Inf*im
>>
>> julia> 1/0 + im
>> Inf + 1.0im
>>
>> It would be nice (sometimes) if these were all the same ComplexInf, say.
>> Perhaps there's an "extended complex numbers" module for this sort of work?
>>
>
