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Is it correct to say that the x-axis in your example is the imaginary number line and the y-axis is the real number line? What about other degrees of rotation?
by CatMtKing 14y ago
Is it correct to say that the x-axis in your example is the imaginary number line and the y-axis is the real number line? What about other degrees of rotation?
- lisper 14y agoYour question is a little ambiguous, but I think you'll find the answer here: http://betterexplained.com/articles/a-visual-intuitive-guide-to-imaginary-numbers/ http://betterexplained.com/articles/a-visual-intuitive-guide... Note that the two examples (polarization versus imaginary numbers) differ in one important respect: in the polarization example, negation is rotation by 90 degrees, e.g. from vertical to horizontal. In the imaginary numbers example, negation is rotation by 180 degrees (e.g. from positive X to negative X -- see the link above).
- hammock 14y agoUsually we say x-axis is real number and y-axis is imaginary. But you get the idea. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_plane http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_plane