> From: JFC (Jefsey) Morfin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 

> > > I do not understand what Phillips means?
> >
> >a complex number has a real and an imaginary part, and the imaginary 
> >part is denoted with a "j" (well, engineers use "j", mathematicians 
> >tend to use "i").  Phillip noted that MIT could use complex 
> telephone 
> >numbers for internal use without impacting worldwide 
> telephone routing, 
> >since they'd use an orthogonal name space.
> 
> OK. I use "i". I never thought Philips considered "complex numbers" 
> because it would means he has absolutely not understood the set-up. 
> And, if one was able to pick it immediately I thought he 
> would be that one!

Please do not mistake a lack of understanding for sarcasm, ridicule and
contempt.


MIT is an engineering university which is why I specified j.

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