OT: what's with the 'i'?

jdow jdow at earthlink.net
Sat Feb 2 20:58:53 UTC 2013


On 2013/02/02 10:39, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 02/02/2013 07:33 AM, Lailah wrote:
>>
>> I never see that in my life.  People, I know is fun to make jokes with
>> TV series and movies and the like, but think that this is an
>> international list.  The Whole World hasn't any due to know all of your
>> stuff.
>
> That, in fact, was exactly what I was demonstrating: for most of the people on
> this list, that was long before they were born.  For me, however, it's the type
> of reference I'd recognize, and I tend to forget sometimes that my audience
> isn't old enough to share those experiences.

Of course some people use j instead of i when dealing with complex
numbers. j am one of them.

{O,o}   I guess that makes me irrational?


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