[jira] Resolved: (MATH-306) Method 'divide' in class 'Complex' uses a false formula for a special case resulting in erroneous division by zero.

["Phil Steitz (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MATH-306?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Phil Steitz resolved MATH-306.
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    Resolution: Fixed

Removed dead code in r830044.

> Method 'divide' in class 'Complex' uses a false formula for a special case resulting in erroneous division by zero.
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>
>                 Key: MATH-306
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MATH-306
>             Project: Commons Math
>          Issue Type: Bug
>         Environment: all
>            Reporter: Joerg Huber
>
> The formula that 'divide' wants to implement is
> ( a + bi )  /  ( c + di )  =  ( ac + bd + ( bc - ad ) i )  /  ( c^2 + d^2 )
> as correctly written in the description.
> When c == 0.0 this leads to the special case
> ( a + bi )  /  di  = ( b / d ) - ( a / d ) i
> But the corresponding code is:
> if (c == 0.0) {
>     return createComplex(imaginary/d, -real/c);
> }
> The bug is the last division -real/c, which should obviously be -real/d.

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