[GAP Forum] arithmetic in C

[Alexander Konovalov]

On 20 Mar 2012, at 09:39, Laurent Bartholdi wrote:

> Dear Wolfgang,
> I reply only now to your question because I'm not on the "forum" mailing
> list; it was kindly forwarded by Jakob.
> 
> It's very tricky to work with complex numbers in pure algebra; GAP
> contains, since its latest release (4.5.2), support for floating-point
> approximations of complex numbers, which I assume is what you want.

May I only add a warning that GAP 4.5.2 is the latest * beta* release - 
there is no public release of GAP 4.5 yet, and we are working on it. 
So usual care should be taken when you deal with beta releases.

Best,
Alexander