Comments on: Another (ab)use for Python’s complex type http://bob.pythonmac.org/archives/2005/01/29/another-abuse-for-pythons-complex-type/ Bob's Rants Fri, 05 Sep 2008 21:33:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Max THIERCY http://bob.pythonmac.org/archives/2005/01/29/another-abuse-for-pythons-complex-type/#comment-88 Max THIERCY Tue, 01 Feb 2005 15:09:23 +0000 /?p=95#comment-88 It can't be an abuse of the Python complex type as, from a mathematical point of view, a complex number IS a two-dimensional vector (technically speaking, there is a bijection between the complex number set, named C, and the cartesian product of the real number set R with itself). So you could also add the multiplication of a vector by a scalar (i.e. real number) : >>> a = 2 + 3j >>> b = 5 * a It can’t be an abuse of the Python complex type as, from a mathematical point of view, a complex number IS a two-dimensional vector (technically speaking, there is a bijection between the complex number set, named C, and the cartesian product of the real number set R with itself).

So you could also add the multiplication of a vector by a scalar (i.e. real number) :
>>> a = 2 + 3j
>>> b = 5 * a

]]> By: Fredrik http://bob.pythonmac.org/archives/2005/01/29/another-abuse-for-pythons-complex-type/#comment-68 Fredrik Sun, 30 Jan 2005 07:43:52 +0000 /?p=95#comment-68 More here: http://online.effbot.org/2004_09_01_archive.htm#tkinter-complex More here:

http://online.effbot.org/2004_09_01_archive.htm#tkinter-complex

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