From: Jan Skibinski <jans@numeric-quest.com>
To: Markus Mottl <mottl@miss.wu-wien.ac.at>
Cc: wester@ilt.fhg.de, caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Complex numbers in OCaml
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 12:48:55 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0103271241170.23430-100000@info.numeric-quest.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010327191938.A13345@miss.wu-wien.ac.at>
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Markus Mottl wrote:
> wester@ilt.fhg.de schrieb am Tuesday, den 27. March 2001:
> > This works but is quite cumbersome to use. Is there any other way to
> > do it and how can arrays of complex numbers be implemented efficiently
> > in OCaml?
>
> It would be indeed nice to see Bigarrays support complex numbers so that
> we can interface to more functions in Fortran-libraries...
>
Or not. :-)
One of the articles by William Kahan (www.cs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/)
"How JAVA's Floating-Point Hurts Everyone Everywhere" discusses
(among other things) some traps in complex number implementations,
including those in Fortran.
Jan
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-03-27 17:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-03-27 16:22 wester
2001-03-27 17:19 ` Markus Mottl
2001-03-27 17:48 ` Jan Skibinski [this message]
2001-03-27 19:25 ` Markus Mottl
2001-03-28 1:04 ` Michael Hohn
2001-03-29 14:26 ` Xavier Leroy
2001-03-27 17:49 Arturo Borquez
2001-09-21 22:25 [Caml-list] Complex numbers in ocaml Post Office!~/sentmail
2001-09-22 17:59 ` John Max Skaller
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