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Re: complex math error? [message #4255]

Fri, 19 May 1995 00:00

llobet
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Registered: May 1993

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In article <3pgkmo$b3s@post.gsfc.nasa.gov>, thompson@orpheus.nascom.nasa.gov
(William Thompson) writes:

[...]
=I can't make it fail running IDL 3.6.1c under OSF/1 v2.0 on an AXP 3000/600
=workstation. I always get the result
=
= IDL> print, exp( complex(0,1)*sqrt(2.)*10. )^sqrt(2.)
= ( -1.28269e-10, 1.66070e-10)
=
=no matter how many times I try it. (I assume that's the correct value.)

Nope. Just try

IDL> print, exp( complex(0,1)*sqrt(2.)*10. )^sqrt(2.D0)
( -0.611276, 0.791417)

This gives the right value.

-xavier

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