• jarfil@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    That’s BS notation. If you want Cartesian, just use 3i+1j, no need for some impossible √-1 that you then redefine some operations for, just so it becomes orthogonal to R.

    • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      The nice thing about 𝑖 = √-̅1̅ is that you don’t need to redefine any operations for it, ℐ𝓂 is “automatically” orthogonal to ℛℯ.

    • dyen49k@kbin.socialOP
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      1 year ago

      You might want to look up geometric algebra for a better geometric interpretation of complex numbers than the complex plane with a “real” and “imaginary” axis