Recent content by jwhipple

Another careless error: That should have been "or e^(-b +ai)." Sorry.

Are you sure? Instead of "really isn't an angle," I think it's simply that it "isn't a real angle." To examine what a complex angle means, one can plug in a complex number in where the argument goes (i.e., in place of "theta" in e^i*theta) and take it from there. So I believe a complex angle of...

Sorry, that obviously (?) should have been "y' = theta." Jeremy Whipple

Hello there. I found this old thread when I was looking for the same information. This turned up in a Google search, and it looked like a promising lead, but nobody seems to have given a simple answer, so I made up my own. Caveat: I'm neither a physicist nor a mathematician. Anyway, in case...