Basic HTML version of Foils prepared December 6 98
Foil 7 Issue: Complex
From Summary of Report of the Java Grande Forum Numerics Working Group SC98 Orlando Java Grande Panel -- November 13 98. byRonald Boisvert and Roldan Pozo (NIST)
Requirements ...
efficient as floats and doubles
convenient as floats and doubles
A standard class provides neither
object overhead unacceptable
semantics of = and == are wrong
inscrutable code from method calls, e.g. a.assign(b.times(c).plus(d))