What are imaginary numbers?? Why can’t the square root of a negative be real?
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Imaginary numbers are an artefact of the conventions we adopt based on mathematical axioms we define.
Negative numbers are a convention we employ to describe certain relationships. But the logical bounds of this convention preclude the possibility that the square root of a negative number can be described within this same conventional framework.
Phenomena for which imaginary numbers offer a useful description are different than the conventions we create to deacribe phenomena.
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