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[Cbor] typed arrays for complex numbers

Gregory Allen <gallen@arlut.utexas.edu> Thu, 11 July 2019 23:24 UTC

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I’m glad to see the proposal for typed homogeneous arrays in CBOR, and have a question.

How would one markup complex data? Similarly, how would one markup other compound types such as quaternion, RGB, or RGBA data?

Note that there is some disagreement out there as to approaches for this. NumPy defines new types for complex numbers (e.g. complex64). HDF5 describes complex numbers as structs containing re and im.

I believe that complex numbers are an important and widely used class of data for CBOR to be able to contain.

I could imaging a “complex” tag, that’s a modifier for a dataType, so that one could do:

    multi-dim([dim, complex(ta-float32le(bstr)) ])

However, that doesn’t scale well to having several different compound types such as those mentioned above.

What are your thoughts on containing this kind of data?

Thanks,
-Greg

Gregory E. Allen, PhD, Sr Engineering Scientist
Applied Research Laboratories: The University of Texas at Austin
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