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'Complex numbers' are numbers that comprise 'real' and 'imaginary' numbers. In electrical engineering, we identify 'imaginary' numbers by placing a lower-case 'j' in front of them. For example, the complex number (10 + j5) comprises the 'real' number, 10, and an 'imaginary' number, 5.

We use complex numbers to locate points on a graph. Mathematicians call the horizontal axis of a graph the 'real axis', and they call the vertical axis the 'imaginary axis'. So 'imaginary' doesn't mean something that only exists in the mind, it's simply a mathematical term for the vertical axis of a graph. So the complex number (10 + j5) is used to represent a point which is located 10 units along the positive horizontal axis and 5 units along the positive vertical axis.

In alternating current theory, we use 'phasors' (a type of vector) to represent voltages or currents that lie at different angles to each other, so we can define them in terms of horizontal and vertical axes. In other words, every phasor can be defined in terms of real and imaginary numbers. We can then use the rules of 'complex mathematics' to multiply, divide, add, or subtract phasors -but that's another story!

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