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To be clear, it's a competitive exam and one of the primary feeders into the USA Math Olympiad team. Many problems are quite challenging.
by mlyle 3y ago
To be clear, it's a competitive exam and one of the primary feeders into the USA Math Olympiad team.
Many problems are quite challenging.
- dxbydt 3y agoyeah it looks like everybody's focused on the mechanics of the computation and not appreciating the math i.e. why the two expressions compute to the same value.
- mlyle 3y agoWe are not in an algebra II class. We are talking about the merits of scheme. You posted a relatively opaque comment and made a relatively unfounded assertion about whether other languages could do it. It might have been better for you to have been a little more direct-- "I like that exponentiation of complex types just works in Scheme; I don't think that works in other languages!" I'm not sure why you think scheme is unique in being able to do this-- indeed, it's one of the examples of std::pow on cppreference: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/numeric/complex/pow https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/numeric/complex/pow > std::cout << "i^i = " << std::pow(i, i) << '\n'; > i^i = (0.207880,0.000000) I also hope it wasn't a way to humblebrag that you have a kid in middle school that knows math that lots of other people around here don't (having forgotten it from alg2/precalc or just having trouble reading your comment). Know your audience and prevailing context, and be clear.