Why is the square root of -4 an imaginary number instead of -2?
In: Mathematics
Have you tried multiplying -2 by -2? Hopefully you did, and you would see that this equals 4 and not -4. That’s really the only answer you need. If you want to know why it doesn’t equal -4 well now you’ve gone down the rabbit whole of asking why math is math, and the short answer is because it is a system that when used in the real world, *actually works to solve problems*
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