<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">It may be a bit more complex since exponent values between -1 and 1 are the<br>
</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">ones that generate imaginary numbers from negative values, with the<br></span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">exception of 0 which generates 1. Latest pd-l2ork patch tries to fix this.<br>
</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">See:</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<a href="https://github.com/pd-l2ork/pd/commit/95d82d33d2580a00e32d725e0f5147d88cdaf3" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">https://github.com/pd-l2ork/pd/commit/95d82d33d2580a00e32d725e0f5147d88cdaf3</a></blockquote>
<div><br></div><div>I think Ivica's proposal is a great solution. Still output 0 for any NaNs but report it to the user so they are aware. </div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 24 April 2013 09:50, IOhannes m zmoelnig <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:zmoelnig@iem.at" target="_blank">zmoelnig@iem.at</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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</div><div class="im">On 2013-04-24 04:10, Ivica Ico Bukvic wrote:<br>
> It may be a bit more complex since exponent values between -1 and<br>
> 1 are the ones that generate imaginary numbers from negative<br>
> values,<br>
<br>
</div>we call those NaNs.<br>
<br>
"the implementation would be trivial" implied "if you are ready to<br>
deal with NaNs".<br>
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On 2013-04-24 05:15, Ivica Ico Bukvic wrote:<br>
><br>
> Yes, the proposed patch generates 0 when imaginary numbers are<br>
> involved and issues warning on the console with ability to track<br>
> the error.<br>
<br>
</div>in which the original behaviour is probably "better", as the result<br>
won't start jumping widely between real values and zero.<br>
<br>
<br>
it seems like i have somehow turned into a defender of the current<br>
behaviour of [pow].<br>
i'd rather not (that is: personally i'd rather not have too many<br>
constructs built into Pd that seemingly make life easier and protect<br>
people from doing stupid things)<br>
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rtfgmqawe<br>
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