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Re:Smith Chart by Merrill on Friday November 22, 2019 @07:21PM (#21611496)
In the late '60s, the introduction of PL/I, which had complex numbers as a primitive type and a math library of functions of complex numbers, made transmission line calculations much easier.
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Re:Smith Chart by GeorgeTirebiter on Friday November 22, 2019 @09:24PM (#21612005)
Fortran 66 had a COMPLEX data type.
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