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From: binni@raunvis.UUCP (Brynjolfur Thorsson )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: complex numbers
Summary: C++
Message-ID: <248@raunvis.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jul 89 14:29:42 GMT
References: <2751@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu>
Organization: Science Inst. Univ. of Iceland
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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
> fortran which allow easy computation of complex numbers?
>                                         


You should consider C++.  C++ allows overflow of operators, so you can
use a = b + c, if a, b, and c are of class complex.
Hope you got sence out of this

Brynjolfur