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then, of course, you can have x=±i as your answer.
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So, complex numbers arose by trying to solve quadratic equations.
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So, let me write you a slightly more interesting quadratic equation,
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So, there's no funny business, all real numbers.
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We want to solve this equation,
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so we go back to our good old sandbox days
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when we knew what the answer for this was--minus 3 over 2.
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And we already have a problem,
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because we don't know what to do with square root of minus 3.
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So, we will write it as
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√(-1) times √3.
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√(-1) we will call i,