[GiNaC-list] real_part and imag_part

[Vladimir V. Kisil]

>>>>> On Tue, 8 Aug 2017 20:15:07 +0200, Jan Rheinländer <jrheinlaender at gmx.de> said:

    JR> Hi, what is the logic here (example from ginsh)?

    >> real_part(sqrt(-3));
    JR> sqrt(-3)
    >> imag_part(sqrt(-3));
    JR> 0

    >> real_part(sqrt(-1));
    JR> 0
    >> imag_part(sqrt(-1));
    JR> 1

    The problems seems to be in CLN library, since for the
  GiNaC::numeric object sqrt(-3), real_part() and imag_part() are simply 
  calling cln::realpart() and cln::imagpart().
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