[boost] Gauging Interest: polar_complex

From: Mickey Moore (mgmoore_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-11-21 17:38:06

I wanted to gauge whether there might be interest in a class for complex 
numbers with data stored in polar form.  For some applications, polar 
complex numbers have significant advantages over Cartesian complex (e.g., 
std::complex) in efficiency and numerical accuracy.  (I spent some time 
Googling and, somewhat to my surprise, didn't find any freely available 
versions of this.)

I have a fairly well developed class that implements this; "boosting" it to 
be worthy of consideration would probably be straight-forward but 
non-trivial.  My version of this is of course templated on the contained 
numeric type.  It is also uses a policy-based design that determines 
whether or not the polar angle phi is always maintained in principal form 
or not and what constitutes principal form (default: no, -pi < phi <= pi).

Thanks, Mickey Moore

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Mitchell G. (Mickey) Moore, Ph.D.
mgmoore_at_[hidden]