Re: Usage of complex numbers?

From: Chris Dams (chrisd_at_gamow.sci.kun.nl)
Date: 03/12/04 

Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 23:19:36 +0000 (UTC)

Hi!

"Peter O. Brackett" <no_such_address@ix.netcom.com> writes:

>Hell, like Oliver Heaviside, I don't need no stinkin quarternions, vectors
>matrices,
>and complex numbers are just fine thank you! And... of course Fortran
>covers
>those bases very well indeed.

>Vectors, matrices, and complex numbers in the time honored mathematical
>notation that is standard fare for Engineers throughout the world is about
>all
>that is needed in any good computer language...

Stinkin quaternions? If you want to compose rotations in three dimensions
quaternions are the way to do this fast. Or would you rather multiply
rotation matrices?

Bye,
Chris Dams