Re: Usage of complex numbers?

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

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    "Peter O. Brackett" wrote:
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    > 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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