Mailing List Archive: [issue43025] Use normal 'i

New submission from Bhuvanesh Bhatt <bhuvaneshbhatt@gmail.com>:

In Python, the letter 'j' denotes the imaginary unit. It would be great if we would follow mathematics in this regard and let the imaginary unit be denoted with an 'i'.

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priority: normal
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status: open
title: Use normal 'i

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Steven D'Aprano <steve+python@pearwood.info> added the comment:

https://mathworld.wolfram.com/j.html

D and SmartBASIC use a literal suffix "i" for imaginary numbers. I can't
find any other languages which support literal syntax for complex
numbers, but I haven't looked very far.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ken_Hawick/publication/267386724_Notes_on_Complex_Numbers_for_Computer_Scientists/links/54c7474f0cf238bb7d0a5c67/Notes-on-Complex-Numbers-for-Computer-Scientists.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_data_type

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nosy: +steven.daprano
title: Use normal 'i' character to denote imaginary part of complex numbers -> Use normal 'i

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