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AutoMath module - add a `polar` function

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#23,173 opened on Aug 31, 2023

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area: Libraries / Moduleseasy / straightforwardgood first issuetype: Feature Request

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Description

In the discussion on the naming of the carg/phase function (#19006), we discovered that Python provides a polar function (https://docs.python.org/3/library/cmath.html#cmath.polar) that is equivalent to (abs(x), phase(x)). This seems like something that would also be useful to provide to users

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Research direction
Study the AutoMath module interface and implement polar as a combination of abs and phase. Ensure to add documentation and tests.
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1
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Under 1 hour
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90