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

[Andrew Dalke]

andres at corrada.com wrote:
>Physicists also use "i" and "I" for current and yet still use "i" for
>imaginary numbers also. The use of "j" is unfortunate given that most
>of the scientific/mathematical world uses "i".


Just scanned through one of my E&M books.  Can't find "i" used for
current.  Found "I", and dQ/dt.  Also found J used for volumn current
density.  Lower case "i" is used for imaginary numbers and i^ (that's
i-with-caret) for unit vector along the x axis.

Can't ever recall using "i" for current.

                    Andrew
                    dalke at acm.org