We Electrical Engineers are quite annoying in this regard, but historically, there is much variation out there: Python uses "j", MATLAB accepts i or j. Apache Commons allows the user to specify the specific character to use, but defaults to "i" I believe. Eventually, I would suggest this be a localizable field. Please see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imaginary_unit#Alternative_notations -Travis On Jun 15, 4:22 pm, James Reeves <jree...@weavejester.com> wrote: > On 15 June 2010 23:26, Carson <c.sci.b...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Sorry I may have missed the reason for this earlier: What's the > > reason for allowing both 'i' and 'j' to indicate the imaginary part? > > Is the intention to also later have 'k' to support quaternions? Just > > curious. Thanks. > > "j" is used by electrical engineers to represent the imaginary part of > a complex number, because "I" has already been taken to mean > electrical current. Presumably this is the reason. > > - James -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
