Lamonte Harris wrote: > Like in math where you put letters that represent numbers for place > holders to try to find the answer type complex numbers? >
Not quite. Relating them to (plane) trigonometry is much closer to the mark. Complex numbers are like a subclass of real numbers that elegantly extends the usual arithmetic operations to provide access to trigonometric functions and related goodies. This then allows you to think of trigonometric problems as simple arithmetic problems. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list