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[–] marcos 3 points 1 month ago

I think the GP is going with complex numbers representing a magnitude and a rotation angle, so that side with length "i" is rotated, and A is an angle of 0°.

But this image is out of order for that. This one would lead to A = 180°. Either way, you can't use Pythagoras theorem anyway.