Hello. Coming back to this with a simple idea that may hopefully satisfy everyone.
What do you think of having one class that performs all operations by directly applying the computational formulae, without worrying about NaN or infinities. This would be represent the complex field, would be simple and most efficient for general use (not involving limiting cases), would be documented as "producing undefined results in limiting cases" or "producing the results expected from direct application of the formulae". The latter would probably automatically keep track of all combinations of NaNs and infinities (as seems to be the case in Octave). In a subclass of the above one, we would attempt to get a completely consistent representation of the extended complex numbers (one point at infinity). It would thus contain all the special handling of the limiting cases of the current "Complex" class (plus all the missing ones and related bug fixes). Regards, Gilles --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
