A imaginary number system

  • Authors:
  • Donald E. Knuth

  • Affiliations:
  • Case Institute of Technology, Cleveland, OH

  • Venue:
  • Communications of the ACM
  • Year:
  • 1960

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Abstract

For centuries the decimal number system reigned supreme, except, perhaps, among the Mayan Indians, until the advent of digital computers brought the binary and octal systems into the limelight. This paper introduces another number system which may prove useful for manipulating complex numbers on machines.