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05-25-2017, 06:21 PM
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(05-25-2017 05:15 PM)toml_12953 Wrote:  
(05-25-2017 11:11 AM)Paul Dale Wrote:  Converting to reals and using real functions is a cheats way out. You'll get the correct answer in this case but it is only hiding the underlying problem.

But when the imaginary part is 0 doesn't that mean the number *is* a real?
It seems more intelligent to treat it that way than to mindlessly use complex routines that aren't necessary.

Tom L

If the case im(z) = 0 is the *only* case that is handled incorrectly, sure. But if the function misbehaves for |im(z)| < ε, only fixing the im(z) = 0 case introduces a discontinuity.
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