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Imaginary Numbers

Imaginary numbers used to bug me. I didn’t get how you could have a number the square of which was -1. Now, however, I view math as more of a human invention than some sort of truth about the world, so the number i doesn’t bother me as much. Here’s a brief discussion on what i is and how it came to be.

posted at 15:48 on Tue, 22 Mar, 2005 | path: /work



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