At 05:29 AM 10/9/2001 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Piers Cawley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] on 9 October 2001 09:02 wrote:
> > But there are going to be problems in some cases if we change the
> > behaviour of NaN to the perl semantics. There are cases where the IEEE
> > behaviour is *useful* dammit.
>
>Indeed, we certainly don't want sqrt(-1) == sqrt(-2) being true.
Depending on what Larry's planning, we may weld in support for imaginary
numbers. While they're mind-warping, in some ways they're better than
having a line labeled "Beyond here be dragons" or something.
Dan
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