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- From: c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca (Kazimir Kylheku)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Complex numbers
- Date: 7 Mar 1996 16:23:39 -0800
- Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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- In article <4hna9f$t7h@sunburst.ccs.yorku.ca>,
- Naftali Sturm <yu114405@sunrise.ccs.yorku.ca> wrote:
- >What's a complex number
-
- This is a question for sci.math! :)
-
- > and how are they represented in NORMAL c?
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- I posted an earlier example about using a structure to represent complex
- numbers.
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- >oh. and what do they have to do with fractals?
-
- Some functions computed in the complex plane are fractals. The functions could
- be as painfully simple as iterating the formula
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- z = z^2 + c
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- that is, add to z the square of itself plus a constant, and repeat a given
- number of times.
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- Of course, z and c are complex numbers, and the squaring is done as a complex
- operation.
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