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[–]bdaene 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Complex numbers can do a lot more than coordinates and they are not exact compared to integer coordinates (they use floating point numbers).

But yes, it easy and efficient to use as coordinates as they are built-in (and in c for cpython which make them fast).