In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Wildemar Wildenburger wrote: > Tim Daneliuk wrote: >> >> One of the most common uses for Complex Numbers is in what are >> called "vectors". In a vector, you have both an amount and >> a *direction*. For example, I can say, "I threw 23 apples in the air >> at a 45 degree angle". Complex Numbers let us encode both >> the magnitude (23) and the direction (45 degrees) as a "number". >> > 1. Thats the most creative use for complex numbers I've ever seen. Or > put differently: That's not what you would normally use complex numbers > for.
But that's how they're used in AC circuit theory, as a common example. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
