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		jwilk on Aug 23, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Complex numbers in JavaScript Why Complex16? What does 16 mean here?

megalodon on Aug 23, 2018 [–]

16 bytes of memory for one complex number! I could've called it Complex128, but that’s a mouthful.

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