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| -rwxr-xr-x | Demo/classes/Complex.py | 12 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Demo/classes/Complex.py b/Demo/classes/Complex.py index 5ac6b18..d2f6f23 100755 --- a/Demo/classes/Complex.py +++ b/Demo/classes/Complex.py @@ -1,6 +1,9 @@ # Complex numbers # --------------- +# [Now that Python has a complex data type built-in, this is not very +# useful, but it's still a nice example class] + # This module represents complex numbers as instances of the class Complex. # A Complex instance z has two data attribues, z.re (the real part) and z.im # (the imaginary part). In fact, z.re and z.im can have any value -- all @@ -15,6 +18,7 @@ # PolarToComplex([r [,phi [,fullcircle]]]) -> # the complex number z for which r == z.radius() and phi == z.angle(fullcircle) # (r and phi default to 0) +# exp(z) -> returns the complex exponential of z. Equivalent to pow(math.e,z). # # Complex numbers have the following methods: # z.abs() -> absolute value of z @@ -202,7 +206,9 @@ class Complex: if z is not None: raise TypeError, 'Complex does not support ternary pow()' if IsComplex(n): - if n.im: raise TypeError, 'Complex to the Complex power' + if n.im: + if self.im: raise TypeError, 'Complex to the Complex power' + else: return exp(math.log(self.re)*n) n = n.re r = pow(self.abs(), n) phi = n*self.angle() @@ -211,6 +217,10 @@ class Complex: def __rpow__(self, base): base = ToComplex(base) return pow(base, self) + +def exp(z): + r = math.exp(z.re) + return Complex(math.cos(z.im)*r,math.sin(z.im)*r) def checkop(expr, a, b, value, fuzz = 1e-6): |