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From: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: complex numbers
Message-ID: <640@chyde.uwasa.fi>
Date: 14 Jul 89 09:37:39 GMT
References: <2751@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu>
Reply-To: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK)
Organization: U of Vaasa, Finland
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In article <2751@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu> heff@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu writes:
>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

Forgive me if this reply is too trite, but one could define
  type complex = record
                    RlPart : real;
                    ImPart : real;
                 end;
and take it up from there by defining the basic operations for
complex numbers as functions.

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