On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 3:49 PM, km <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm delighted with your additional paring.

Thank you.

> Loving complex numbers, I mention that you have accepted them if you have 
> accepted Format!  You could still delete their utilities.

You can use format without complex numbers.  You can also use multiply
without complex numbers.  In both cases we are ignoring useful
functionality.  The point is not to be useful, the point is to
minimize the vocabulary a beginner needs to absorb.

> I would keep Square Root.

^&0.5 gives you square root.

I'd probably also eliminate foreigns from "core".  Foreigns are about
as peripheral as you can get.  The beginner should probably be told to
start with covers (fread, fwrite, ...).

Thanks,

-- 
Raul
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