There are loads of solutions to this. 1 x -1, 2 x -0.5 3 x -1/3, 4 x -0.25, 5 x -0.2, etc. The square root of -1 is called i, and it is an imaginary number. Unless you're an electronic engineer in which case it's called j and it's far too useful to be imaginary. You can have real numbers which are the numbers you all know about, imaginary numbers which are purely imaginary, eg i, 2i, 3i, or any other real number multiplied by i. You can also have complex numbers which have real and imaginary components eg 1+i, 2+3i or 3e^(iπ/6) Think of it like this: Some people have real girlfriends. Some have an imaginary girlfriend. I have a complex girlfriend - the real part I see every day at university and we are best of mates, and then in the evening when I go to bed I take the imaginary part out and fantasise to my hearts content. Or something like that. How did we get onto maths anyway?
maths!!!!voluntarily and needlessly doing maths!!!most evil unfortunate curse ever placed upon the human race. ugh c'est impossible!!numbers are intangible - once you get past 10, you've left the realms of humanity and entered the universe of the 11-toed-llamabobs...
WHOOOSH. OK, I'll explain just because you're foreign However, I shall explain this only once. Your previous post about multiplying numbers to reach a product of -1 is what is known on at least 2 forums as Spackman. Spackman is posting something that's already been posted, basically. You only have to go back 3-4 posts to see that. It's called Spackman because it all started when a Mr Nigel Spackman got sacked from Barnsley FC as manager. That story got posted about 5 times in the one day, a few years ago. There followed a running gag to reply to all Spackman posts with "Nigel Spackman sacked from Barnsley" or occasionally something a bit more creative, such as: Bearded ex-chippy turned messiah killed by eye-ties (Jesus crucified by the Romans) Or Someone tell harry the frogs are coming across the channel! (William of Normandy about to arrive to conquer England, 1066) So... Columbus Spotted on the Beach - Better tell Chief Wigwam (in 1492 Christopher Columbus discovered America and met a few natives before beginning to rape rob and pillage them) God, I hate explaining things like this - it really ruins it!!
...reason this thread is the most popular one I've ever started? That's what I was asking. Obviously! Still, you had to kill it with maths.
