Re: [Scheme-reports] Fwd: Missing description of complex polar form

["Aaron W. Hsu" <arcfide@x>]

On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 20:42:06 -0400, Vincent Manis <vmanis@x> wrote:

> And apparently there is no way to produce a textual representation of a  
> complex number in polar form (other than writing a few lines of code  
> oneself). I'll have more to say about number->string in a subsequent  
> email, but this certainly seems to me to be a deficiency.

WRITE and NUMBER->STRING should both do this. Both are required to produce  
the external representation of a number. If a number is polar, then it's  
external representation is in the real@real notation, and you will get  
that form.

	Aaron W. Hsu

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