Re:Obsolete trig functions and why we don't use them anymore...
by gmadsen on Thursday December 03, 2020 @10:37AM
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how can you say imaginary numbers have intrinsically little to do with the 2D plane? it is entirely possible and equally correct to define imaginary numbers geometrically. It is nice and convenient that this is equivalent to the algebraic definition.
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Re:Obsolete trig functions and why we don't use them anymore...
by gmadsen on Friday December 04, 2020 @10:26AM
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for anyone interested, a great text on this is https://www.amazon.com/Visual-Complex-Analysis-Tristan-Needh...