Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tektronix!reed!kamath
From: kamath@reed.UUCP (Sean Kamath)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,local.computing
Subject: Re: Standards for C complex number routines - ARE THERE?
Message-ID: <10934@reed.UUCP>
Date: 6 Nov 88 23:09:25 GMT
References: <10875@reed.UUCP>
Reply-To: kamath@reed.UUCP (Sean Kamath)
Organization: Reed College, Portland OR
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In article <10875@reed.UUCP> mdr@reed.UUCP (Mike Rutenberg) writes:
>Are the any standards (IEEE, ANSI or other) for complex
>number libraries in C?  Anything under development?
>
>I'm just curious - I've done a short package in C which
>works fine, but I would like to make it easy to port the code
>to other machines which may have local super duper fast routines.
>I'd rather comply now than later - I'm just that type I guess :-).
>
>Mike


You should switch to C++, which has data hiding, and thus makes using
complex numbers a little easier.  AS I recall, Mr. Mason knows more
about this than myself.

Sean

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