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Remember that `i` is also a number. As in `for i = 0 to n`.

Don’t believe those mathematicians when they tell you that `i` is “imaginary”.




All numbers are imaginary.

sqrt(-1) should have been called w, for "weird".


I use w for the complex roots of 1 though, when rewriting FFT notes.




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