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Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 13:50:11 +1100
From: Michael Abbott aka frEk <20014670 AT snetch DOT cpg DOT com DOT au>
Organization: Student of Computer Power Institute
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To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Imaginary Numbers
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Heya

Another way to do it is to have two floating point parts for both the real and
imaginary parts and doing the equations for imaginary multiplication, etc.
yourself.

- Michael

Damian Yerrick wrote:

> "David Pinkerton" <pinkerton AT desupernet DOT net> wrote:
> > Im working on making a small program that would display Fractals and the
> > like , but all the equations ive seen involved imaginary numbers. Is there
> a
> > biult in constant somwhere in djgpp for dealing with these. i tried
> setting
> > a variable equal to sqrt(-1) but it came back undefined. thanks alot
> >
> > Josh
>
> Have you looked at the C++ complex.h functions?
>
> Damian Yerrick