To stop the foolishness being promoted by
>>39 and
>>40, I'll change my terms to:
1i
1i
... since i is just a marker that the numbers we're talking about are imaginary. Other than their imaginary character, they possess the characteristics of the real numbers.
After all, we avoid the use of other sorts of markers, like the base10 notation (where π ≈ 3.14159
10). When we say i, we really mean 1i.
Also, why do we so duly accept the combined terminology of
xi+y? That's like adding a line and an area. They're just not in the same classification, so to speak. (Pardon my amateur use of terminology.) I think that the
xi+y notation is better represented as a vector, having two parts that are not directly related to each other, yet together do properly describe
one object.
>>40
i = √
-1 = -1
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