Complex/imaginary numbers

[vbvyas]

@sharkdp Are you planning to add support for complex/imaginary numbers. I am up for sending a PR to add that capability 😸

[sharkdp]

Sorry for the late reply.

I agree that it would be a nice feature, but support for complex numbers doesn't have a very high priority for me, to be honest. If you are up to the challenge, I'd be glad to take pull requests 👍.

I suspect that this might need quite a lot of changes in various involved libraries. Probably, one would have to write a complex-numbers package on top of purescript-decimals and change the underlying numeric type for scalar values in purescript-quantities from Decimal to Complex. The final change in insect could be as simple as adding a variable i for the imaginary unit in the initial environment.

[ghost]

Yep, having support for imaginary numbers arithmetic in rectangular and polar coordinates would be a very useful feature to have for me.

[chronaeon]

Agreed that this would be a useful feature. Great job on the calc!

[garywill]

Complex number support would be great for circuit impedance calculation, when there is capacitor or inductance.

Hope ~

[sharkdp]

follow-up ticket for Numbat here: sharkdp/numbat#180