On Oct 10, 2013, at 10:12 AM, Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> 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. > It all depends on where (in what field) you learned about complex numbers. Mathematicians and Physicists use i, engineers use j. -Bill -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
