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Re:Quantum Physics Falls Apart Without Imaginary Numbers by zuminator on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @12:02PM (#35702322)
You keep saying spiral but in a 2d spiral the value of |y| would be increasing as well. So if I'm understanding you correctly I think you mean helical? As in:

https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-1b9122546ee68a13e259e...

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Re:Quantum Physics Falls Apart Without Imaginary Numbers by dbelford on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @12:47PM (#35703103)
The Heyser spiral or Heyser corkscrew seems to be a common name for this type of plot. https://www.google.com/search?q=heyser+spiral

And it connects circles, e/euler's formula, and sin/cos is a visually grokkable way.

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Re:Quantum Physics Falls Apart Without Imaginary Numbers by zuminator on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @01:08PM (#35703467)
Ah, well that's fair! In any case though "spiral" is a pretty general term; I'm really just trying to get a sense of the shape the op was referring to, assumedly not something like an Archimedean spiral. Thank you for that idenfication.
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