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From: Orchid XP v3
Date: 17 Feb 2007 07:24:12
Message: <45d6f3ec$1@news.povray.org>
>> So... is that something like taking the reciprocol of a complex number?
> 
> Here's a good introduction in 2D:
> http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Inversion.html

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Reciprocal.html

Seems to indicate that the reciprocal of a complex number is indeed an 
inversion with respect to the unit circle in the complex plane.


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