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>>11513313
Handwaving is not an answer.
While you are correct that complex numbers are used to represent coordinates in two dimensions (hence Gauss's recommendation of "lateral numbers"), you haven't provided an adequate explanation of /why/ that is. Someone unfamiliar with Euler's formula is certainly someone unfamiliar with the complex plane, how it may represent 2D vectors, how multiplying by [math]i[/math] "rotates" by [math]\pi/2[/math], and so on; simply telling them these things are true without illuminating on why does not lead to any increased understanding.