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Different error messages for sqrt(-1) and sqrt(-1.0) #5815

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prcastro opened this issue Feb 14, 2014 · 1 comment
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Different error messages for sqrt(-1) and sqrt(-1.0) #5815

prcastro opened this issue Feb 14, 2014 · 1 comment

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@prcastro
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Is it a bug? (I'm on Julia 0.3.0-prerelease+1419)

julia> sqrt(-1)
ERROR: DomainError

julia> sqrt(-1.0)
ERROR: DomainError
sqrt will only return a complex result if called with a complex argument.
try sqrt(complex(x))
 in sqrt at math.jl:277
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This turns out to be due to #5354.

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