On 2013-10-10, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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?
I don't know that EE's ever encounter hypercomplex numbers (I certainly never have), nor does Python support them, so in _practice_ there isn't really a conflict. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! I want EARS! I want at two ROUND BLACK EARS gmail.com to make me feel warm 'n secure!! -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list