[Libre-soc-dev] complex numbers as matrices

[Hendrik Boom]

On Fri, Jun 25, 2021 at 07:36:29PM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> https://www.nagwa.com/en/explainers/152196980513/
> 
> ooOoo, that's posh, that is.  complex numbers can be represented as
> matrices,
> then the inverse of a matrix times the conjugate is the reciprocal of the
> complex number...
> therefore you can do division of complex numbers through matrix
> multiplication.

Representing a complex number as a matrix makes it into a 2x2 matrix of reals,
That means more data manipulation for the same complex number.
 
And matrix inverse is hard to do right.  There's a lot of numerical 
analysis on the subject, 
It turns out that just about any operation that can be elegantly written 
using a matrix inverse can better be done by a different algorithm.

It's not efficient to represent complex numbers as 2x2 matrices.

-- hendrik
 
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