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From: ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: complex numbers
Message-ID: <1989Jul14.015447.8194@cs.rochester.edu>
Date: 14 Jul 89 01:54:47 GMT
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Reply-To: ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap)
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|Is there an easy way to do complex numbers in pascal?  In particular is
|there a way to write equations in source code such as
|                     a =: b + c;
|or
|                     a := (b+c)/(d+e);
|as can be done in fortran.  For that matter, are there any languages beside
|fortran which allow easy computation of complex numbers?

Not in Pascal, but in Pascal-SC, a version designed for scientific
computation. So far all I know of it is from the book "Pascal-SC:  A
Computer Language for Scientific Computation" (Academic Press 1987).
Are implementations distributed?

Then there is C++. Please no language wars here ok?