On 31 Aug, 18:12, "Chris Mellon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/31/07, Carsten Haese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 20:11 -0500, Lamonte Harris wrote: > > > Like in math where you put letters that represent numbers for place > > > holders to try to find the answer type complex numbers? > > > Is English your native language? I'm having a hard time decoding your > > question. > > I'm pretty sure he was describing middle school algebra.
Yes, I imagine that the "letters that represent numbers" is intended to refer to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elementary_algebra Whereas complex numbers are, of course, described here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_number I hope the above resources are informative for the original inquirer. Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
