On Tue, 8 Jun 2010 12:33:38 +0100, Anne Driver <annedrive...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes, I did read the documentation. It says it returns the imaginary part. > But there is no I - just a real number. As such I believe at the *very least > * the documentation should say it returns the imaginary part as a real > number. Better still is to return the imaginary part with an I in front of > it.
I don't have strong opinions about the matter, but I'd like to point out that the imaginary part of a complex number *is* just a real number (if z = x + i*y, the imaginary part is y, without the i). So the documentation is correct about this. Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- http://aghitza.org/ Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org
