Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!sdd.hp.com!wuarchive!udel!princeton!njsmu!mccc!pjh From: pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: Why sqrt(-1)=j and not sqrt(-1)=i Message-ID: <1991May7.191637.15428@mccc.edu> Date: 7 May 91 19:16:37 GMT References: <1991May1.170325.28926@mccc.edu> Organization: The College On The Other Side Of Route One Lines: 20 In article moonhawk@bluemoon.uucp (David Culberson) writes: =pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg) writes: = => In article <38610010@col.hp.com> bobw@col.hp.com (Bob Witte) writes: => = Why isn't c used for current? Because c is used for capacitance. => => Actually, C is used for capacitance. => = = Nitpicker. = No, just "case-sensitive"! ;-) Pete -- Prof. Peter J. Holsberg Mercer County Community College Voice: 609-586-4800 Engineering Technology, Computers and Math UUCP:...!princeton!mccc!pjh 1200 Old Trenton Road, Trenton, NJ 08690 Internet: pjh@mccc.edu Trenton Computer Festival -- 4/20-21/91