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Suit filed against Chicago Internet taxes
(chicagotribune.com)
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friendlyfrog
11y ago
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friendlyfrog
14y ago
It's not arbitrary. It comes directly from the axiomatics.
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friendlyfrog
14y ago
No it's not. i is a number such that i^2 = -1 by definition.
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friendlyfrog
14y ago
Imaginary numbers are defined. Imaginary numbers are not rotations or anything else that I keep hearing. Those are all properties of the fact that we define an imaginary number to be z = a + bi, where a and b are real numbers, and i^2 = -1.