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Re:My resignation letter as R7RS-large chair by vinaypai on Thursday August 17, 2023 @10:59PM (#37170971)
The example the OP cited doesn't involve complex numbers. Atan(1) is pi/4.
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Re:My resignation letter as R7RS-large chair by mlyle on Thursday August 17, 2023 @11:09PM (#37171022)
Sigh.

1i is an imaginary number. We are discussing the difficulty in calculating i^i, not whether a language can do atan(1).

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