College Algebra / Alg 181 · Atom · ~20 seconds
The Imaginary Unit
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The imaginary unit i is defined as the square root of −1, so that i² = −1; i is the principal, positive root.
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No real number squares to a negative, so i lives off the real line — a new number admitted under the old rules.
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i is a number, not a variable.
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