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On 5/13/2011 1:48 AM, nmm1@cam.ac.uk wrote:
> Andy \"Krazy\" Glew<andy@SPAM.comp-arch.net>  wrote:

>> As you may have noticed, I immediately jump to polar coordinates for
>> directed infinities.
>
> Fine.  Good luck in getting programming languages to follow you!

Who needs programming language support?

I have my own C++ template class, that supports rectangular and polar 
notation.

(Actually, had - it appears that is one of the things left behind at 
some former employer, probably Intel.  They probably wouldn't have 
minding me taking it.  But, it is fairly simple to rewrite from scatch 
if the need arises.)