On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Frank Barknecht wrote:
unit i (or j in DSP books) is, well, complex. For a detailed introduction you might want to review somehting like that: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Algebra:Complex_numbers http://www.physics.umd.edu/courses/Phys374/fall04/files/ComplexNumbers.pdf
There is also an introduction on Julius Smith homepage:
http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/mdft/Complex_Numbers.html
really good stuff there in general.
Guenter