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Re: creating Inf*i
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A S Hodel |
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Re: creating Inf*i |
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Mon, 12 May 2003 09:20:53 -0500 |
I'd be curious what the IEEE standard for this kind of operation
specifies. If you view the complex plane as an honest-to-goodness
plane, then what you're saying makes sense. If, on the other hand, you
view it as the Riemann sphere, then "all roads lead to infinity" - and
there's only one infinity, at the top of the sphere. This latter
viewpoint is how one has to interpret a number of control-theoretic
results in complex analysis.
As a result, there may be some ambiguity of what i*inf returns -
although, like you, I'd like to see it be 0 + i*inf.
On Monday, May 12, 2003, at 04:05 AM, withaar wrote:
Hi all,
I need to create an imaginary infinity number. These methods don't
work:
a = complex(0,Inf)
a = 1i*Inf
Both methods multiply (0+i)*Inf and the result is NaN+Infi because
0*Inf
is undefined. This, however, works:
a = (1i*realmax)*2
Is there a better way to do this?
cheers,
Willem
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