[issue10562] Change 'j' for imaginary unit into an 'i'

[Mark Dickinson]

Mark Dickinson <dickinsm at gmail.com> added the comment:

Just to add my own thoughts:  'j' for *a* (not *the* </pedantry>) square root of -1 has, as Michael points out, a history of use in engineering (particularly electrical engineering) and physics.  Personally, I would have preferred 'i' to 'j' here, but changing it now would cause (IMO) gratuitous breakage.  It really doesn't seem a big enough issue to be worth making a fuss about.

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