CAPITAL 'i' is current.
'I'
I=E/R (ohm's law)
'i' is used for indexing. hmmm. and here I have idle open.

> >> 
> >> i="index"
> >> I="'current'"
> >> 
> >> i
'index'
> >> I
"'current'"
> >> 
ok, it senses CASE, so it would seem that using I should be fine, but i
will cause much potential grief, possibly.



Andres Rosado wrote:
>  
>  At 12:00 PM 8/23/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>  >If I recall correctly, j is commonly used in engineering notation, so it
>  >would be more familiar to someone who already used it in their own
>  >equations.
>  
>  This is especially true in electric engineering. The current is represented
>  with the letter `i', so using `i' for complex number will make things more
>  difficult to understand.
>  
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