Hack request: rational numbers

Johann Hibschman johann at physics.berkeley.edu
Mon Jan 29 14:11:29 EST 2001


Jaap Spies writes:

> chaoweilun at my-deja.com wrote:
>> 
>> Sorry,BTW,could anyone tell me,why the letter "j" is used
>> to represent complex numbers, but not "i"?

> You are a mathematician? Me too.
> A lot of Python People are Mathematicians.
> Nevertheless "j" will do!

Don't look now, but the physicists are with you on this one.  ;-)

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Johann Hibschman                           johann at physics.berkeley.edu



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