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Re: Graph-TI - Complex arithmetic

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From: Donald Peterson
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 1994 00:26
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In article <01HKHS54CC3M9QVIKX@ritvax.isc.rit.edu>,
RWWT  <RWTNTS@ritvax.isc.rit.edu> wrote:
>
>By the way... How many people know that it is possible to perform calculations
>with complex numbers on the TI-81 or TI-82 by using 2x2 matrices?  We have
>been using this idea for many years now in our advanced algebra/trig/etc.
>courses.
>
>        ||      RWW Taylor                 rwtnts@rit.edu
>        ||      National Technical Institute for the Deaf
>        ||      Rochester Institute of Technology
>        ||      Rochester NY 14623

I guess I will bite and say that I do not know (or remember) the use of 
2X2 matrices for complex numbers. Could you please share. I am always 
looking for uses of matrices.

Don Peterson
Vancouver Schools
Vancouver, Wa
dpeterso@vannet.k12.wa.us
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