Python has built-in support for complex arithmetic. The imaginary unit is denoted by j
:
z = 2+3j # A complex number
w = 1-7j # Another complex number
Complex numbers can be summed, subtracted, multiplied, divided and exponentiated:
z + w # (3-4j)
z - w # (1+10j)
z * w # (23-11j)
z / w # (-0.38+0.34j)
z**3 # (-46+9j)
Python can also extract the real and imaginary parts of complex numbers, and calculate their absolute value and conjugate:
z.real # 2.0
z.imag # 3.0
abs(z) # 3.605551275463989
z.conjugate() # (2-3j)