I am going into Honors Algebra II and while I am fine at using imaginary numbers in a formulaic sense I never understood them conceptually. I can’t tell if they exist just to make math work better or because there is an actual logical way to understand them
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To add to the awesome explanations, imaginary numbers were originally designed to solve previously-unsolveable trinomial equations.
[Veritasium’s video](https://youtu.be/cUzklzVXJwo) going over their invention and popularization is an excellent watch, highly recommend.
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