How to fit an elephant (2011)

I can't help but feel like a complex number is two parameters (real&imag / mod&arg) - so really this is 8 parameters.

The only thing missing here is a little anecdote about how Von Neumann, when challenged on this, did it in his head and started rattling off the parameters. For arbitrary animals.

How do you fit an elephant?<p>One parameter at a time.

Now can you add one more and make him wiggle his trunk?