From: Angus Hammond <angushammond@...>
Date: 2010-05-30T05:33:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Square Root

Thanks I had tried require complex and Math::sqrt but only separately.
Thanks again.
Angus

On 29/05/10 21:03, Jean-Julien Fleck wrote:
> Hello Angus,
>
> 2010/5/29 Angus Hammond<angushammond@hotmail.co.uk>:
>    
>> Is there a way to get an accurate square root?
>> This means that a negative number should return the appropriate complex
>> number. I have been having some trouble with this in a program that solves
>> quadratic equations recently. Ideally but not necessarily it should be able
>> to get the square root of complex numbers as well.
>> NB Neither -2**0.5 or Math::sqrt(-2) return appropriate answers. (-2 and an
>> error respectively)
>>      
> require 'complex'
> include Math
> c = Complex(-2,0)
> sqrt(c)
>
>    
>>> require 'complex'
>>>        
> =>  true
>    
>>> include Math
>>>        
> =>  Object
>    
>>> c = Complex(-2,0)
>>>        
> =>  Complex(-2, 0)
>    
>>> sqrt(c)
>>>        
> =>  Complex(0.0, 1.4142135623731)
>
> Cheers,
>
>