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>We can use complex numbers to describe a 2-dimensional number-space with a single digit. No we can't. What digit represents 1 + 1j?
by archgoon 9y ago
>We can use complex numbers to describe a 2-dimensional number-space with a single digit.
No we can't. What digit represents 1 + 1j?
- jacobolus 9y agoThere are many ways to do this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex-base_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex-base_system But it seems clear that the grandparent poster was using the wrong word (“digit”) and likely meant something like “we can conceive of a 2-dimensional quantity as a single number-like entity”.