Re: Usage of complex numbers?

From: bv (bvoh_at_Xsdynamix.com)
Date: 03/12/04


Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 02:05:50 GMT


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

In the meantime, aerospace engineers dredged them up so that
(communication) satellites wouldn't be pointing any which way.



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