Re:The Paper That Keeps Showing Up
by hamilyon2 on Monday October 31, 2022 @03:47AM
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I like how your illustration also implies that -i is also square root of -1, which is true
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Yes! In fact, you can rotate i (or 1) by any angle around the origin and obtain a so-called "root of unity". If the angle was rational, you can now apply this rotation multiple times to itself and eventually you'll obtain 1 or -1.