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"already understands these relationships so well" Is that true for complex numbers?

• ahuth 8y ago
  Perhaps the thing people potentially already understand well is the arithmetic?
• earthicus 8y ago
  Complex numbers as 'cyclic numbers' is not widely understood. What is understood is how they fit into the arithmetic 'hierarchy': how the real numbers embed into the real axis, and how the operational rules for addition and multiplication work. However SICP also asks us to implement the polar form of C to illustrate multiple representations of the same data type, so I have to admit that part might require some additional explanation for many students.
• deleted 8y ago
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