Immutable-Complex

This is a fork of the original Complex library of Arian Stolwijk. Thanks for the initial work!

It changes one fundamental thing and some details:

Fundamental Change

The Complex Objects are now immutable, in the sense that when applying mathematical operations on an instance of Complex doesn't change its value, but it returns a new instance with the new value. I need this for my math.

Consequently, the finalize method was removed.

Changes in Details

• I changed the name of the imaginary part from "im" to "imag", because it is more verbose and because it reminds me of the API for complex numbers in Python.

• I added an operator like API as aliases for existing functions. You can access them via the brackets c['='](d) New aliases are:

  • ** => pow
  • * => multiply
  • / => divide
  • + => add
  • - => subtract
  • = => equals

  Used like this:

var c = new Complex(1,1);

c.add === c['+']; // true

// thus:
var cc = c['+'](c)
  , cc2 = c.add(c)
  ;
cc['='](cc2); // true

About:

Complex is a additional Type to deal with Complex Numbers in JavaScript. It provides several methods to add, multiply numbers as well as calculate the magnitude and angle in the complex plane.

Node

You can get this package with NPM:

npm install ComplexImmutable

var Complex = require('Complex');
console.log(new Complex(3, 4).abs()); // 5

Browser

Complex can be built for the browser with wrapup or other tools that can generate browser JS from Node packages.

Testing

Testing is done with Mocha and Expect.js:

# install dependencies
npm install
# run the tests in node
./node_modules/.bin/mocha test/Complex.js

or testing in the browser:

# install dependencies
npm install
# run a small node server
node ./test/server.js
# run tests
google-chrome http://localhost:3000

API Documentation

Complex constructor:

var z = new Complex(real, imag);

Arguments:

1. real (number) the real part of the number
2. imag (number) the imaginary part of the number

Function: Complex.from

A in line function like Number.from.

var z = Complex.from(real[, imag]);

Arguments:

1. real (number) the real part of the number
2. imag (number, optional) the imaginary part of the number

Or

1. real (string) a string representation of the number, for example 1+4i

Examples:

var z = Complex.from(2, 4);
var z = Complex.from(5);
var z = Complex.from('2+5i');

Function: Complex.fromPolar

Creates a complex instance from a polar representation: r*e^(phi*i) = r (cos(phi) + i sin(phi))

var z = Complex.fromPolar(r, phi);

Arguments:

1. r (number) the radius/magnitude of the number
2. phi (number) the angle/phase of the number

Constant: Complex.i

A instance of the imaginary unit i

var i = Complex.i;

Constant: Complex.one

A instance for the real number 1

var one = Complex.one;

Method: fromRect

Sets the real and imaginary properties a and b from a + bi

myComplex.fromRect(real, imag);

Arguments:

1. real (number) the real part of the number
2. imag (number) the imaginary part of the number

Method: fromPolar

Sets the a and b in a + bi from a polar representation.

myComplex.fromPolar(r, phi);

Arguments:

1. r (number) the radius/magnitude of the number
2. phi (number) the angle/phase of the number

Method: toPrecision

Sets the precision of the numbers. Similar to Number.prototype.toPrecision. Useful befor printing the number with the toString method.

myComplex.toPrecision(k);

Arguments:

1. k (number) An integer specifying the number of significant digits

Method: toFixed

Formats a number using fixed-point notation. Similar to Number.prototype.toFixed. Useful before printing the number with the toString method.

myComplex.toFixed(k);

Arguments:

1. k (number) The number of digits to appear after the decimal point; this may be a value between 0 and 20, inclusive, and implementations may optionally support a larger range of values. If this argument is omitted, it is treated as 0

Method: magnitude

Calculates the magnitude of the complex number

myComplex.magnitude();

Alias:

• abs

Method: angle

Calculates the angle with respect to the real axis, in radians.

myComplex.angle();

Aliases

• arg
• phase

Method: conjugate

Calculates the conjugate of the complex number (multiplies the imaginary part with -1)

myComplex.conjugate();

Method: negate

Negates the number (multiplies both the real and imaginary part with -1)

myComplex.negate();

Method: multiply

Multiplies the number with a real or complex number

myComplex.multiply(z);

Arguments:

1. z (number, complex) the number to multiply with

Alias:

• mult

Method: divide

Divides the number by a real or complex number

myComplex.divide(z);

Arguments:

1. z (number, complex) the number to divide by

Alias:

• div
• /

Method: add

Adds a real or complex number

myComplex.add(z);

Arguments:

1. z (number, complex) the number to add

Alias:

Method: subtract

Subtracts a real or complex number

myComplex.subtract(z);

Arguments:

1. z (number, complex) the number to subtract

Alias:

• sub

Method: pow

Returns the base to the exponent

myComplex.pow(z);

Arguments:

1. z (number, complex) the exponent

Alias:

• **

Method: sqrt

Returns the square root

myComplex.sqrt();

Method: log

Returns the natural logarithm (base E)

myComplex.log([k]);

Arguments:

1. k (number) the actual answer has a multiplicity (ln(z) = ln|z| + arg(z)) where arg(z) can return the same for different angles (every 2*pi), with this argument you can define which answer is required

Method: exp

Calculates the e^z where the base is E and the exponential the complex number.

myComplex.exp();

Method: sin

Calculates the sine of the complex number

myComplex.sin();

Method: cos

Calculates the cosine of the complex number

myComplex.cos();

Method: tan

Calculates the tangent of the complex number

myComplex.tan();

Method: sinh

Calculates the hyperbolic sine of the complex number

myComplex.sinh();

Method: cosh

Calculates the hyperbolic cosine of the complex number

myComplex.cosh();

Method: tanh

Calculates the hyperbolic tangent of the complex number

myComplex.tanh();

Method: clone

Returns a new Complex instance with the same real and imaginary properties

myComplex.clone();

Method: toString

Returns a string representation of the complex number

myComplex.toString();

Examples:

new Complex(1, 2).toString(); // 1+2i
new Complex(0, 1).toString(); // i
new Complex(4, 0).toString(); // 4
new Complex(1, 1).toString(); // 1+i
'my Complex Number is: ' + (new Complex(3, 5)); // 'my Complex Number is: 3+5i

Method: Equals

Checks if the real and imaginary components are equal to the passed in compelex components.

myComplex.equals(z);

Arguments:

1. z (number, complex) the complex number to compare with

Alias:

• =

Examples:

new Complex(1, 4).equals(new Complex(1, 4)); // true
new Complex(1, 4).equals(new Complex(1, 3)); // false

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2014 Arian Stolwijk, Lasse Fister

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