Gaussian integer

Any complex number of the form a + bi, where a and b are integers.

Noun

Any complex number of the form a + bi, where a and b are integers.
- We could say that a Gaussian integer is larger than another if its norm is larger, that is, if its distance from the origin is larger. That's all right, although it has the peculiarity that 5 is larger than -7 as an...
- 2000, André Weilert, Asymptotically fast GCD Computation in ℤ[i], Wieb Bosma (editor), Algorithmic Number Theory: 4th International Symposium, ANTS-IV, Proceedings, Springer, LNCS 1838, page 595, We present an...
- 2008, Timothy Gowers, June Barrow-Green, Imre Leader (editors), The Princeton Companion to Mathematics, Princeton University Press, page 319, For example, in the ring of Gaussian integers, R_-1, we have the...