On 2013-10-10, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> 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,
Nope. "i" is electical current (though it's more customary to use upper case). "j" is the square root of -1. > 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? Because that's the way we do it in electrical engineering. ;) -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! Are we THERE yet? at My MIND is a SUBMARINE!! gmail.com -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list