toms243

toms243 is a MATLAB library which evaluates the logarithm of a complex value, by David Collens. This is a version of ACM TOMS algorithm 243.

The text of many ACM TOMS algorithms is available online through ACM: http://calgo.acm.org/ or NETLIB: http://www.netlib.org/toms/index.html.

Licensing:

The computer code and data files described and made available on this web page are distributed under the GNU LGPL license.

Languages:

TOMS243 is available in a MATLAB version.

Related Data and Programs:

TEST_VALUES, a MATLAB library which tabulates several values of a variety of special functions.

toms243_test

Reference:

1. David Collens,
   Algorithm 243: Logarithm of a Complex Number,
   Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery,
   Volume 7, Number 11, November 1964, page 660.

Source Code:

• toms243.m computes the logarithm of a complex value.
• timestamp.m prints out the current YMDHMS date as a timestamp.