03-12-2009, 08:19 AM
taekahn Wrote:Allyson Wrote:I was tutoring a boy yesterday and I tried to tell him about imaginary numbers. He told me all numbers are imaginary. What is x? That is a letter in the alphabet.
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Don't be so quick to correct the boy, every number does have an imaginary part. 1+0i.
Oh good point. In that case every number has infinite parts. 1 + 0i + 0 + 0*2 + 0x + ...
And here we go again.
That's what she said.