David Goldsmith wrote: > Travis Oliphant wrote: > >> What could be simpler? ;-) >> > Having sqrt(-1) return 1j (without having to remember that in order to > get this, you have to write sqrt(-1+0j) instead). > > But this can sometimes lead to confusing errors hard to track when you don't want to treat complex numbers. That's one of the thing I hated in matlab, actually: if you don't want to handle complex numbers, you have to check regularly for it. So I don't think this is simpler.
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