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From: billw@hpcvra.cv.hp.com. (William C Wickes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Complex units
Message-ID: <25590125@hpcvra.cv.hp.com.>
Date: 14 Mar 91 01:02:56 GMT
References: <11187@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA
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There's no conceptual problem with complex numbers with units.  The
48 doesn't happen to include an object type for such things; call it a
limitation rather than a quirk (remember ROM is full and life is short?).
However, you can enter expressions like '(1_m,1_m)', which immediately
compiles to '1_m+(1_m)*i'.  That opens up lots of possibilities.

Bill Wickes
HP Corvallis