[Tutor] Re: complex numbers: j vs. i

[Andres Rosado]

At 12:00 PM 8/23/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>If I recall correctly, j is commonly used in engineering notation, so it
>would be more familiar to someone who already used it in their own
>equations.

This is especially true in electric engineering. The current is represented 
with the letter `i', so using `i' for complex number will make things more 
difficult to understand.


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