On 10/10/2013 14:25, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 12:09 AM, Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> wrote:
BTW, one of the earliest things that turned me on to Python was when I
discovered that it uses j as the imaginary unit, not i. All
right-thinking people will agree with me on this.
I've never been well-up on complex numbers; can you elaborate on this,
please? All I know is that I was taught that the square root of -1 is
called i, and that hypercomplex numbers include i, j, k, and maybe
even other terms, and I never understood where j comes from. Why is
Python better for using j?
ChrisA
Electrical Engineers use j (probably to avoid conflicts with i (current).
--electrically yrs--
Robin Becker
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