Re: [curiosa] Re: Debian Centre of Mass

["Sanjeev Gupta" <ghane@dotxtra.com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ryan M. Golbeck" <rmgolbeck@uwaterloo.ca>


> Well, really (pi)i is still a complex number:
>
> 0 + (pi)i
>
> Just a zero real component.
>
> The coefficients of the complex number can be from any number set, really.
> Still complex.
>
> Hrm, I've just been told that an imaginary number is a complex number with
> no real component.

IIRC, the Sets of Real and Imaginary numbers are subsets of the Set of
Complex numbers.  Therefore:
    5 = 5 + 0i
the imaginary part being zero.  And there would be times when one would use
such an expansion, in proving theorems, you often go from a simple
representation to a more complex one, to abstract out a term.

Back to Debian, and developers in Singapore, or passing through?  I need my
key signed.

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Sanjeev Gupta