On 2022-02-20 17:56, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
Gerrit Holl writes:
> If voting is limited to a select group (which could be as small as
> Python core developers, or as large as anyone who has ever had a pull
> request merged into cpython, or something in-between), then a vote
> could be
"To table" is a contranym in both the US and the UK.
On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 9:53 AM MRAB wrote:
> On 2022-02-20 17:56, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> > Gerrit Holl writes:
> >
> > > If voting is limited to a select group (which could be as small as
> > > Python core developers, or as large as
On Mon, Feb 21, 2022 at 1:39 PM Tim Peters wrote:
> [Mark Dickinson ]
> > It Would Be Nice If
> > `-1 * complex(inf, 0.0)` gave `complex(-inf, -0.0)` instead
> > of the current result of `complex(-inf, nan)`.
> Except replacing -1 with "-1.0" or "complex(-1)" would
> presumably _still_ return
I have to say that signed zeroes and signed infinities don't work well
in 754 for complex numbers. I know Kahan _wanted_ signed zeroes to
help sort out branch cuts for complex functions, but he appears to be
alone in the world in finding them useful for that ;-)
Complex multiplication for values w
