[PD-dev] how math objects respond to a bang

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Mon, 13 Feb 2006, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:

> i do not see how this contradicts my earlier mail. obviously, "atan2"
> takes 2 arguments, but they can be seen as parts (real/imag,
> nominator/denominator) of _one_ value

[+] is really unary, because it can be expressed using a single complex 
value z=a+bi:

a+b = Im((1+i)z)
a-b = Re((1+i)z)
a*b = Im(z/2)
and so on

> a variable "ö" would be written in most prog.languages (except java, but
> who writes java...) with 2 letters, even though it is really a single
> letter. so what?

one guy thinks that atan2 is unary but that +,-,* are binary. so what?

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