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Foil 12 Issue: Complex

From Activities of the Java Grande Forum Numerics Working Group Java Grande Meeting with Sun Microsystems Menlo Park -- March 11 99. by Geoffrey C. Fox
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))

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