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d--byesterday at 6:12 PM1 replyview on HN

Whoever coined the terms ‘complex numbers’ with a ‘real part’ and ‘imaginary part’ really screwed a lot of people..


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cess11yesterday at 6:55 PM

How come? They are part real numbers, what would you call the other part?

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