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Anarch157a
9 months ago
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A wonderful coincidence or an expected connection:...
All numbers are imaginary.
sqrt(-1) should have been called w, for "weird".
syockit
9 months ago
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I use w for the complex roots of 1 though, when rewriting FFT notes.
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sqrt(-1) should have been called w, for "weird".