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11-16-2007, 05:04 AM
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Re: The second imaginary number
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How important is the second imaginary number in mathematics? I am of course talking about h the number whose square is -2. [/ QUOTE ] Are you familiar with the field of complex numbers or the complex plane? Your number h is simply one element of the field of complex numbers, and frankly I've never heard it referred to as the "second imaginary number" (and I'm a math guy). 
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11-16-2007, 08:15 AM
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Re: The second imaginary number
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How important is the second imaginary number in mathematics? I am of course talking about h the number whose square is -2. [/ QUOTE ] No more than the first imaginary number, or the third, obviously. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
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#8
11-16-2007, 05:57 PM
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Re: The second imaginary number
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[ QUOTE ] How important is the second imaginary number in mathematics? I am of course talking about h the number whose square is -2. [/ QUOTE ] One more than the first imaginary number, one less than the third, obviously. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] [/ QUOTE ]
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#9
11-16-2007, 08:28 PM
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Re: The second imaginary number
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How important is the second natural number in mathematics? I am of course talking about the number whose square is 4. [/ QUOTE ] Not very important as it is just -(h^2).
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#10
11-17-2007, 01:19 PM
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Re: The second imaginary number
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[ QUOTE ] How important is the second natural number in mathematics? I am of course talking about the number whose square is 4. [/ QUOTE ] Not very important as it is just -(h^2). [/ QUOTE ] -2(h^2) actually.
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