Hack request: rational numbers

[Moshe Zadka]

On Sun, 28 Jan 2001 16:24:10 GMT, 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"?

Guido believes there should be one way to do everything, so in some
ancient time he polled the python-list, and since there were more engineers
then mathematicians, "j" won.

"j" is very common to denote the square root of -1 in engineering since
"i" denotes current.
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