Mark Dickinson <dicki...@gmail.com> added the comment:

Just to add my own thoughts:  'j' for *a* (not *the* </pedantry>) square root 
of -1 has, as Michael points out, a history of use in engineering (particularly 
electrical engineering) and physics.  Personally, I would have preferred 'i' to 
'j' here, but changing it now would cause (IMO) gratuitous breakage.  It really 
doesn't seem a big enough issue to be worth making a fuss about.

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