Complex literals (was Re: I am never going to complain about Python again)

[Robin Becker]

On 10/10/2013 14:25, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 12:09 AM, Roy Smith <roy at 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