RE: MD On Transcendence

From: Scott Roberts (jse885@earthlink.net)
Date: Wed Nov 10 2004 - 18:30:31 GMT

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    Mel,

    > Of course even in the intellectual we agree on the
    > being of non-existence things for certain purposes,
    > say, square root of negative one.

    Bad example. The square root of negative one ('i') is no less non-existent
    than any other number. It can be interpreted visually as the rotation by 90
    degrees in the plane, that is, given a complex number (which can be
    represented as a point on the plane), multiplying it by i is to rotate it
    by 90 degrees (around the (0,0) point). Multiplying it again by i rotates
    it another 90 degrees, or 180 degrees total, which is to reverse the
    original number's direction, which is what you get by multipying the
    original number by -1.

    - Scott

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