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Flaky-Proof5511 t1_j6cbvrs wrote

Reply to comment by betelguese_42 in ELI5: Why do imaginary numbers even need to exist? by Tharsis101

Didn't the YouTuber 3Blue1Brown suggested rotation numbers as a more user friendly name ?

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Magnetic_Syncopation t1_j6d9syu wrote

Another commenter mentioned that you can substitute calculations in electronic circuits that would normally use imaginary numbers instead with vectors. But it's a lot more work doing that, whereas imaginary numbers make calculations easier to do.

It seems like imaginary numbers provide a way of rotating between magnitudes in a sine/cosine way

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