I've come a long way in the past two weeks since asking my first question, having written a tictactoe game using grid layout and button-pushes to make x and o and declare winner and a class that performs complex number arithmetic (e.g., z1=-3-4i plus z2=7+i via cAdd(z1,z2)) and calculations (e.g., sin(z1) and log(z2)) correctly. (Confirmed by and implemented via help from a CAS called Derive.)
No problem so far.
So I decided to enhance cAdd to accept more than two complex numbers (e.g, cAdd(z1,z2,z3)) and found the following syntax for varying-length argument lists:
public ComplexNumber cAdd ( ComplexNumber ... a);
But whereas the two-parameter version of cAdd(z1,z2) works fine, the "varargs" version (e.g., cAdd(z1,z2,z3)) gives correct results BUT CHANGES THE PARAMETER VALUES so that if z1 is used in a later calculation, it's not what it started out as.
Here's code, followed by output.
class ComplexNumber {
double real, imag;
public ComplexNumber() { // default constructor
}
public ComplexNumber(double a, double b) { // initializer constructor
real = a;
imag = b;
}
public class CBug {
public static void cPrint(String s, ComplexNumber z) {
System.out.println(s + z.real + " + " + z.imag + "i");
}
public static void dump(int n, ComplexNumber z, ComplexNumber [] a){
System.out.print("Dump " + n + "; sum so far is " );
cPrint("z = ", z);
for (int i = 0; i < a.length; i++)
cPrint("" + i + ": " ,a[i]);
System.out.println("");
}
public static ComplexNumber cAdd(ComplexNumber ... a) {
ComplexNumber z = a[0];
for (int i = 1; i < a.length; i++){
dump(i,z,a);
z.real = z.real + a[i].real;
z.imag = z.imag + a[i].imag;
}
dump(99,z,a);
return z;
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
ComplexNumber sum = new ComplexNumber();
ComplexNumber z1 = new ComplexNumber(1000,500);
ComplexNumber z2 = new ComplexNumber(7, 1);
ComplexNumber z3 = new ComplexNumber(100,100);
cPrint("z1 = ", z1);
cPrint("z2 = ", z2);
cPrint("z3 = ", z3);
System.out.println("");
System.out.println("++++++++++++++++++++++");
sum = cAdd(z1, z2, z3) ;
cPrint ("z1 + z2 + z3 = " , sum);
System.out.println("--------------------");
cPrint("z1 = ", z1);
cPrint("z2 = ", z2);
cPrint("z3 = ", z3);
}
}
Output:
run:
z1 = 1000.0 + 500.0i
z2 = 7.0 + 1.0i
z3 = 100.0 + 100.0i
++++++++++++++++++++++
Dump 1; sum so far is z = 1000.0 + 500.0i [correct]
0: 1000.0 + 500.0i
1: 7.0 + 1.0i
2: 100.0 + 100.0i
Dump 2; sum so far is z = 1007.0 + 501.0i [correct]
0: 1007.0 + 501.0i [but WHY DID ARG[0] CHANGE to "z so far"?]
1: 7.0 + 1.0i
2: 100.0 + 100.0i
Dump 99; sum so far is z = 1107.0 + 601.0i [correct]
0: 1107.0 + 601.0i [WHY DID ARG[0] CHANGE AGAIN to new "z so far"?]
1: 7.0 + 1.0i
2: 100.0 + 100.0i
z1 + z2 + z3 = 1107.0 + 601.0i [correct]
--------------------
z1 = 1107.0 + 601.0i [WHY DID z1 (a.k.a. arg[0]) CHANGE?]
z2 = 7.0 + 1.0i
z3 = 100.0 + 100.0i
BUILD SUCCESSFUL (total time: 0 seconds)
Can't use 1st parameter in subsequent calculations since cAdd damaged it.
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Here's what I now have for cAdd (since my original "fix" [described in comments below] was a bit wacko]:
public static ComplexNumber cAdd(ComplexNumber ... a) {
ComplexNumber z = new ComplexNumber();
for (int i = 0; i < a.length; i++){
z.real += a[i].real;
z.imag += a[i].imag;
}
return z;
}
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