From: Andrew Duncan <andrew.duncan@...>
Date: 2010-06-08T04:38:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Complex numbers contradiction?

I have ruby 1.8.7 (2009-06-08 patchlevel 173) [universal-darwin10.0]

BTW, I hope that was 1/2 - 1/2i in your post...

If this is a bug, it's pretty egregious.

Robert Dober wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 9:01 PM, Andrew Duncan <andrew.duncan@sonos.com> 
> wrote:
>> This looks correct:
>>>> Complex(1,1)**-1
>> => Complex(Rational(1, 2), Rational(-1, 2))
>>
>> But this does not; should be same answer:
>>>> 1/Complex(1,1)
>> => Complex(0, -1)
>>
> Correct on my box
> ruby-1.9.1-p378 > 1/Complex(1,1)
>  => 12-12i
> 
> which version do you have?
> 
> HTH
> R.

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