[Scilab-users] {EXT} display of complex/not real numbers, again

[Stéphane Mottelet]

Le 12/09/2019 à 14:19, Dang Ngoc Chan, Christophe a écrit :
> Hello,
>
>> De la part de Stéphane Mottelet
>> Envoyé : jeudi 12 septembre 2019 10:26
>>
>> I now have a real rationale to promote a change in
>> the way complex numbers with small imaginary part are displayed.
> I agree with you.
>
> I would add another advantage:
> the user is not always aware that the result of a function is a complex;
> the typical case is the use of roots() when the expected result is real.
> It sometimes causes problems as some other function
> do not accept complex numbers as patrameters.

You are right.

This basic rationale (compared to the over-sophisticated I proposed...)  
has been invoked many times and should have been enough to change 
things. There is already a proposal here:

https://codereview.scilab.org/#/c/20981/


>
> Regards
>
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