One use-case that springs immediately to mind is creating ranges of magnitudes. It is not sufficient to use abs() because that returns the same type which may not be comparable.
Also, a fairly common operation on complex numbers (or indeed any metric space) is to see if two values are within distance d of each other. In other words, to check whether the magnitude of their difference is less than d. This again requires comparability of magnitudes. Nevin
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