• diaphanous
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    8 hours ago

    I think you’re thinking of taking the absolute value squared, |z|^2 = z z*

    • candybrie@lemmy.world
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      1 hour ago

      Considering we’re trying to find lengths, shouldn’t we be doing absolute value squared?