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You may be familiar with this property of square roots:
But with imaginary numbers:
Why is this ? ?
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MathsIsFun,
The square of (-1) is 1. The square root of 1 is ±1. Since the square root of (-1) is represented by i, and it is known that i²=-1, it may be intially baffling that -1=1, but a square root always has two values, positive and negative. In this case, since -1 is also one of the roots, the equation is perfectly right!
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Awww... I was hoping to cause confusion.
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