Complex Numbers Class?

hello everyone,
I have been working for my Data structures class for a week now and have been attempting to understand this whole complex numbers concept. My textbook has very little description on the operations for complex numbers, so I was hoping someone here would be better able to explain it to me. I am trying to write the code to overload the - symbol for a complex number for my complex class. I was struggling mostly with understanding how does one negate a complex number. Heres the basic outline for the code I have come up with. Any and all help would really be appreciated.

heres the definition within the class.

complex operator- () const;
//negation of a complex number



and my function implementation would be...

complex::complex operator-() const
{

}

first off, C99 has all of this as does MSVC++ (Complex class)
Seondly, complex numbers do messy stuff for relatively simple operations.

Here is a simplified version of some really old complex functions written in C for students learning pointers & structs. This is NOT production code, it's too slow.

Code:

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#include <math.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#ifndef __neg
#define __neg 0
#define neg(c) c*(-1)
#endif
typedef struct complex{
    double r;
    double i;
};


static struct complex cmplx_working;
static struct complex cmplx_perm;
static double cmplx_double;

/* prototypes */
void complex_print(struct complex *,int);
void complex_fprint(struct complex *,int,FILE *);
void complex_cpy(struct complex *,struct complex *);

struct complex *complex_sqrt(struct complex *);
struct complex *complex_init(void);
struct complex *complex_multiply(struct complex *,struct complex *);
struct complex *complex_divide(struct complex *, struct complex *);
struct complex *complex_conjugate(struct complex *);
struct complex *complex_add(struct complex *,struct complex *);
struct complex *complex_subtract(struct complex *,struct complex *);

double *complex_real(struct complex *);
double *complex_imag(struct complex *);
double *complex_abs(struct complex *);
double *complex_modulus(struct complex *);
double *complex_log(struct complex *);
double *complex_phase(struct complex *);

double *complex_phase(struct complex *src){
      cmplx_double=M_PI;
      if(src->r!=0)
          cmplx_double=atan2(src->i/src->r);
      return &cmplx_double;
}

double *complex_real(struct complex *src){
        return src->r;
}

double *complex_imag(struct complex *src){
        return src->i;
}

double *complex_log(struct complex *src){/* limited definition +/- pi/2 */
        double x=M_PI;
        /* default value for r = 0 */
        if(src->r !=0){
            x=*complex_abs(src);
            x*=*complex_phase(src);
        }
        cmplx_double=x;
        return &cmplx_double;     
}       


struct complex *complex_sqrt(struct complex *src){ /* NB: conjugate is other root*/
      double r,x,y;
      r=*complex_abs(src);
      y=sqrt(abs((r-src->r))/2);
      x=src->i/(2*y);
      cmplx_perm.r=x;
      cmplx_perm.i=y;
      return &cmplx_perm;
}

double *complex_modulus(struct complex *src){
      return complex_abs(src);
}

double *complex_abs(struct complex *src){
        cmplx_double=sqrt( (src->r*src->r) + (src->i*src->i) );
        return &cmplx_double;
}       
void complex_print(struct complex *src,int i){
        if(!i)printf("(%f + %f)",src->r,src->i);
        if(i)printf("(%f + %f)\n",src->r,src->i);
        return;
}
void complex_fprint(struct complex *src,int i,FILE *f){
        if(!i)fprintf(f,"(%f + %f)",src->r,src->i);
        if(i)fprintf(f,"(%f + %f)\n",src->r,src->i);
        return;
}

void complex_cpy(struct complex *dest,struct complex *src){
      dest->i=src->i;
      dest->r=src->r;       
}

struct complex *complex_add(struct complex *first,struct complex *second){     
      cmplx_perm.r=first->r+second->r;
      cmplx_perm.i=first->i+second->i;
      return &cmplx_perm;
     
}       
struct complex *complex_subtract(struct complex *first,struct complex *second){
      cmplx_perm.r=first->r - second->r;
      cmplx_perm.i=first->i - second->i;
      return &cmplx_perm;       
}
struct complex *complex_init(void){
        cmplx_working.i=0;
        cmplx_working.r=0;
        return &cmplx_working;
}
struct complex *complex_conjugate(struct complex *src){
        complex_cpy(&cmplx_perm,src);
        cmplx_perm.i=neg(src->i);
        return &cmplx_perm;       
}
struct complex *complex_multiply(struct complex *first,struct complex *second){
        double a,b,c,d;
        a=first->r;
        b=first->i;
        c=second->r;
        d=second->i;
        cmplx_perm.r=(a*c) - (b*d);
        cmplx_perm.i=(a*d) + (b*c);
        return &cmplx_perm;       
}
struct complex *complex_divide(struct complex *numerator, struct complex *denominator){
        struct complex conj,tmp1,tmp2;
        complex_cpy(&conj,complex_conjugate(denominator));
        complex_cpy(&tmp1,complex_multiply(numerator,&conj));
        complex_cpy(&tmp2,complex_multiply(denominator,&conj));
        cmplx_perm.r= tmp1.r/tmp2.r;
        cmplx_perm.i= tmp1.i/tmp2.r;
        return &cmplx_perm;
}

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This is production code (part of Fractint):

Code:

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/* old way of inlining code */

#define CMPLXrecip(arg,out)    \
  { double denom; denom = sqr((arg).x) + sqr((arg).y);\
    if(denom==0.0) {(out).x = 1.0e10;(out).y = 1.0e10;}else\
    { (out).x =  (arg).x/denom;\
    (out).y = -(arg).y/denom;}}



/*take a cmplx to an integer power */

void cpower(_CMPLX *base, int exp, _CMPLX *result)
{
    if (exp<0) {
        cpower(base,-exp,result);
        CMPLXrecip(*result,*result);
        return;
    }

    xt = base->x;  yt = base->y;

    if (exp & 1)
    {
      result->x = xt;
      result->y = yt;
    }
    else
    {
      result->x = 1.0;
      result->y = 0.0;
    }

    exp >>= 1;
    while (exp)
    {
        t2 = xt * xt - yt * yt;
        yt = 2 * xt * yt;
        xt = t2;

        if (exp & 1)
        {
            t2 = xt * result->x - yt * result->y;
            result->y = result->y * xt + yt * result->x;
            result->x = t2;
        }
        exp >>= 1;
    }
}

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Isn't there the std::complex<T> template in the Standard C++ Library?

Yes there is. I think I tried to say that - he wanted examples.
I'm not sure he/she undertands complex arithmetic - hence the awful examples.

I'm sure you can find a good description of complex numbers and it's operations on the internet. Don't search for code, but rather for pure math. Or ask in the Math forum here, but I'm not sure if anyone still goes there.

Hello again,
The problem I was given gives me a class description, and left the class implementation for me to finish. I have attached the header file and the source file. Everything works except for when I attempt to negate a complex number. if you compile the code and run it it wont come up with any errors because I have commented the three lines that are giving me problems. Ultimately I am trying to prove that -i * i = 1.
I cant quite figure out how to negate a complex number. I have been searching on the internet, but most of the complex number information does not include negating a complex number.

From some checking, it looks like...

Code:

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#include <iostream>
#include <complex>

using namespace std;

int main() {
    complex<double> c(5, -2);
   
    cout << c << endl;
    cout << -c << endl;
}

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...which gives:

Code:

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(5,-2)
(-5,2)

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thats such an obvious way to check that problem. Thanks alot for the help.

PHP Code:

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complex complex::operator- () const
{
    complex temp(-real,-imag);
    return temp;
} 


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That should work.
[edit: added the class scope complex::]

return complex(-real, -imag);


even shorter, and you should inline this function.

Quote:

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Originally posted by CornedBee
return complex(-real, -imag);


even shorter, and you should inline this function.

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I was thinking about that but wasnt so sure it would work and since i didnt have time to check, i just did what i thought was the safest, shortest way! lol.

Thanks for the confirmation CB.