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A imaginary number system

By Donald E. Knuth

Communications of the ACM, Vol. 3 No. 4, Pages 245-247
10.1145/367177.367233

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.

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