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Igel

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1. Never figured they were just "bookkeeping."

Reply to Celerity (Original post)

Sat Jun 28, 2025, 01:34 PM

Jun 28

Don't know what they actually mean, though. Took complex analysis way back as an undergrad, gobs of use in fluids and EE. (In fact, not "getting" phasors in EE was my motivation for the complex analysis.)

Can't do them--or quantum--without them.

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Never figured they were just "bookkeeping." Igel Jun 28 #1