On Tuesday 19 February 2008 01:25, Yoav Nir wrote: > I don't like that very much. a two-dimensional number should be a > vector, not a complex number. {lujna'u} I like better, because this is > a composite number, just as {lujvo} is a composite word.
But a composite number is a product of more than one prime number, not a complex number. 5, as a complex number, is composite, because it's the product of 2+i and 2-i, which are prime. The complex numbers are a two-dimensional vector space over the real numbers. What should we call vectors? phma