[Tutor] complex numbers: j vs. i
Lance E Sloan
lsloan@umich.edu
Fri, 23 Aug 2002 10:48:28 -0400
I skimmed the Python documentation for a reason why the letter "j" is used
to represent the imaginary part of complex numbers rather than the letter
"i". I didn't find anything. In fact, I didn't see anything that
mentioned either letter. Perhaps I didn't look at the right document. I
was reading "Python Reference Manual"
<URL:http://www.python.org/doc/current/ref/ref.html>.
Does anybody know why "j" is used? I'm guessing that either "i" caused a
conflict or that the Dutch word for "imaginary" starts with "j".
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