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vinaypai on Aug 18, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: My resignation letter as R7RS-large chair

The example the OP cited doesn't involve complex numbers. Atan(1) is pi/4.

mlyle on Aug 18, 2023 [–]

Sigh.

1i is an imaginary number. We are discussing the difficulty in calculating i^i, not whether a language can do atan(1).

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