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imaginary number
noun
A number of the form bi, where b is a real number except zero and i the imaginary unit
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i Square root of -1, an imaginary number.
The square root of a negative number gives you another imaginary number, another i.
Finally, the imaginary number i is the square root of negative one.
There wasn't really an Adam and Eve?" Lord Asriel tells her to think of the story as an "imaginary number, like the square root of minus one".
Perhaps, adapting the conventions of mathematical notation, the movie character should be thought of as "Nash prime" or Nashi (i referring to an imaginary number).
And the plan also specifically "does not promise the immediate creation of some imaginary number of jobs, because government cannot create jobs".
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It got worse, the imaginary numbers game.
Imaginary numbers it can cope with; imaginary, imaginary numbers it can't.
Euler's formula marries the world of circles, imaginary numbers and exponentials.
(Numbers of the form bi are sometimes called pure imaginary numbers to distinguish them from "mixed" complex numbers).
So mathematicians consider real numbers to be an abstraction on exactly the same logical level as imaginary numbers.
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