Yep. It's damaging to have NaN's propagating around in Pd. [pow] having a single output means that you only want real values. The result is not a real number-I think the result should just be set to 0 (perhaps 1 depending on what the worst usage case is). Would it be better to have pow just output the real part of the complex number, generated from:
(-1*base)^exp*e^(pi*exp*i) Which is (-1*base)^exp*cos(pi*exp) when base is a negative number this assumes the standard branch cut in complex analysis: -1=e^(pi*i) and not e^(3*pi*i) or any other Chuck On Apr 23, 2013 9:11 PM, "Ivica Ico Bukvic" <[email protected]> wrote: > It may be a bit more complex since exponent values between -1 and 1 are the > ones that generate imaginary numbers from negative values, with the > exception of 0 which generates 1. Latest pd-l2ork patch tries to fix this. > See: > > > https://github.com/pd-l2ork/pd/commit/95d82d33d2580a00e32d725e0f5147d88cdaf3 > 70 > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of > > IOhannes m zmoelnig > > Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 6:21 AM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [PD] Negative input numbers for [pow] return 0 > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On 2013-04-23 11:50, Joe White wrote: > > > Out of curiosity, are the workarounds suggested more of a result of > > > the difficulty of extending the Pd core rather than the > > > implications that such a change might have? > > > > the implementation would be trivial (merely removing the safeguards > > that currently clamp the value to 0) > > > > fgmasdr > > IOhannes > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) > > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > > > iEYEARECAAYFAlF2YIEACgkQkX2Xpv6ydvQyoQCgiC95SRoOKaOHu6qkmpX+kD8 > > 0 > > /ugAoJymAbmtt6qWkZM5rAlObyhdarRF > > =KUIu > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > _______________________________________________ > > [email protected] mailing list > > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list >
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