This chapter provides facilities for arithmetic operations involving complex numbers.
Of the several representations used for complex numbers, perhaps the most common is , where and
are real numbers, and represents the imaginary
number . The number is the real part, and the imaginary part.
For the basic arithmetic operations of addition, subtraction and multiplication, the inclusion of routines was not considered worthwhile. Their coding would be short and no special techniques need be used.
In complex number operations of a more complicated nature, special precautions may have to be taken to avoid unnecessary overflow and underflow at intermediate stages of the computation. This has led to the inclusion of routines in this chapter.
The routines were originally written for use by NAG Library routines which compute eigensystems of real and complex matrices (see
Chapter F02). They may, however, be of general use to programmers using complex numbers.
Fortran programmers may prefer to use the COMPLEX facilities in that language rather than carrying the real and imaginary parts of the numbers in different variables.
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