really silly nit: why 3+5j instead of 3+5i?

[Ivan Van Laningham]

Hi All--

Jeff Petkau wrote:
> 

[snip]

> [History of imaginary number notation, according to Google: Euler
> invented the things, and he used 'i'. Gauss made 'em famous, and
> he used 'i'. Everyone since then has used 'i' except for electrical
> engineers, and they probably just changed it to cause trouble. So
                                                        ^^^^^^^^
> why does Python use 'j'?]
> 

Who invented this language?  After whom did he name it?

<pouring-phosphorus-on-troubled-waters>-ly y'rs,
Ivan;-) 
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