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| From | Robin Becker <robin@reportlab.com> |
|---|---|
| Subject | Re: Complex literals (was Re: I am never going to complain about Python again) |
| Date | 2013-10-10 14:29 +0100 |
| References | <CAPTjJmrGrS6A50nV98vttQ2hv6avWewao3FQX81sej7S-Ottfw@mail.gmail.com> |
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
| Message-ID | <mailman.938.1381411785.18130.python-list@python.org> (permalink) |
On 10/10/2013 14:25, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 12:09 AM, Roy Smith <roy@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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Re: Complex literals (was Re: I am never going to complain about Python again) Robin Becker <robin@reportlab.com> - 2013-10-10 14:29 +0100
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