On 2/19/12 11:33 AM, Richard Fateman wrote:
> maybe we should have a cbfloat for complex bigfloats?
You mean as something separate from what the bigfloat package does now?
If so, that seems pretty invasive and not so useful unless you add
support for "native" complex number as well. But this, in addition to
your work on supporting CL rationals natively (instead of ((rat) num
den)) would be nice.
>
> I agree that bigfloat:to can't make a real bigfloat from a complex,
> [unless imag part happens to be zero] but
> it can make a bigfloaty-thing :)
No, bigfloat:to can't make a real bigfloat from a complex, but it will
convert a bigfloat complex object to maxima's ((mplus) real ((mtimes)
imag $%i)).
Ray