I think it'd be awesome to have some sort of "decimal" notation where 2 + 3i was encapsulated as a single entity, something like 2_3. We don't write 2 + .3 when we mean 2.3, and this distinction makes it seem like a complex number is "less put together" than a real one.
in a sense it is - it involves magnitudes along two orthogonal directions. there is no qualitative difference between 2 and 0.3 in this particular context.
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I think it'd be awesome to have some sort of "decimal" notation where 2 + 3i was encapsulated as a single entity, something like 2_3. We don't write 2 + .3 when we mean 2.3, and this distinction makes it seem like a complex number is "less put together" than a real one.
in a sense it is - it involves magnitudes along two orthogonal directions. there is no qualitative difference between 2 and 0.3 in this particular context.