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complex
Complex numbers are represented according to the ISO C standard as arrays of two IEEE double precision floating point numbers of 8 bytes each, with the number representing the real part first.
A small selection of operations on complex numbers is available by
function calls of the form library('complex',f)
. These
functions are implemented by the host system’s C library.
One example is library('complex','create')
which takes a pair
of floating point numbers (x,y)
to a complex number
whose real part is x and whose imaginary part is y.
See math
for information about constructing floating point
numbers.
Other than that, the complex
library functions f
fall
into three main groups, which are the real valued unary operations,
the complex valued unary operations, and the complex valued binary
operations. All of these operations are designated by their standard C
names as documented elsewhere, such as the GNU libc
reference
manual, except as noted.
creal cimag cabs carg |
ccos cexp clog conj csin csqrt ctan csinh ccosh ctanh casinh cacosh catanh casin cacos catan |
cpow vid bus mul add sub div |
The last four correspond to the C language operators *
,
+
, -
, and /
for complex numbers. The functions
named vid
and bus
are similar to div
and
sub
, respectively, but with the operands interchanged. That is,
library('complex','vid') (x,y) |
is equivalent to
library('complex','div') (y,x) |
All functions in this library taking complex numbers as input may also operate on real numbers, and binary operators can have either or both operands real. For real operands, a value of zero is inferred as the imaginary part. The result type of the function is the same regardless.
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