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[Hrvoje Niksic]

David Ascher <da at ski.org> writes:

> On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Charles G Waldman wrote:
> 
> > David Ascher writes:
> >  >
> >  > So you want sqrt(-1) to always succeed?  Brr..
> > 
> > Why would this be such a terrible thing?  I'm not sure I see the
> > grounds for your shivering.
> 
> Most of the folks I teach Python to have never heard of complex
> numbers, and they're not especially in a rush to learn about them.

Then they shouldn't be evaluating sqrt(-1).  :-)

Seriously, how will somebody who has never heard (sic!) of complex
numbers care if some mathematical functions yield complex results?