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by kazinator 714 days ago
Obtaining an intuition for what it means to use an imaginary exponent takes work.

Exponents give us expoential decay/growth in the real number line, but periodicity in the imaginary domain, which is strange.

In physics, this lets us analyze decaying or amplifying oscillations in a unified way. (Laplace transform and all that.)