From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2006-06-19T22:21:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Numeric roadmap?



tsuraan@tsuraan.net wrote:
>> There MUST BE ONE SINGLE AND TRUE COMPLETE NUMERIC TYPE!!!
>> namely, class ArbitraryPrecisionHyperComplexNumber !
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> You will support quaternions and octonions, right?  It had also better
> support vector rotation by quaternion, or I'm not using it :)
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>> P.S. just a joke, raised by Unicode debate :)))
>>
> We'll see :)
Why not do what R did --- define "scalars" as vectors of length 1 and
make the vector the basic numeric type?
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