On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 1:12 AM, Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote: > 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. >
Okay, so hold on a minute... a hypercomplex number is the sum of a real number, some electrical current, an imaginary number, and k? This belongs in the Izzet League, I think. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
