Re: Usage of complex numbers?

From: Richard Maine (nospam_at_see.signature)
Date: 03/11/04


Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 14:47:10 -0800

In article <aQ54c.699$GQ3.666@newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net>,
 "Peter O. Brackett" <no_such_address@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

> I thought Oliver Heaviside put the run to quarternions almost a century ago.
>
> Today in electrical/communications Engineering we seldom rotate in 3D.

It's done all the time in flight dynamics applications. Well,
sometimes you don't bother because the airplane will break
before it hits that singularity anyway; but many other times
you do.



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