On Oct 15, 2010, at 12:14 PM, William G. Scott wrote: >> As usual, the Omniscient Wikipedia does a pretty good job of giving the >> standard mathematical definition of a "vector": >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_space#Definition >> >> If the thing fulfills the axioms, it's a vector. Complex numbers do, as >> well as scalars. > > > It is a bit more complicated, unfortunately. cf:
Don't you mean, it's a bit more _complex_? :) > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_number#The_complex_plane > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_number#Real_vector_space
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