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Comment by pansa2

1 year ago

Remember that `i` is also a number. As in `for i = 0 to n`.

Don’t believe those mathematicians when they tell you that `i` is “imaginary”.

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Anarch157a  1 year ago

All numbers are imaginary.

sqrt(-1) should have been called w, for "weird".

  • syockit  1 year ago

    I use w for the complex roots of 1 though, when rewriting FFT notes.

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