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== Defination==
 
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     Imaginary number comes to use when people want to refer to a number which could not be represented by any real number, such as the square root of a negative number.  
 
     Imaginary number comes to use when people want to refer to a number which could not be represented by any real number, such as the square root of a negative number.  
  
 
     We use i to represent <math>sqrt(-1)</math>.
 
     We use i to represent <math>sqrt(-1)</math>.
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Revision as of 17:34, 1 September 2008

Review of Complex Number

Defination

    Imaginary number comes to use when people want to refer to a number which could not be represented by any real number, such as the square root of a negative number. 

    We use i to represent <math>sqrt(-1)</math>.

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