• MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de
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    7 months ago

    i= √(-1) = imaginary number (1^2) + (√(-1))^2 = 1 - 1 = 0 7

    At least, I thought that was the idea in the OP.

    Also, for your version, on a number line or Cartesian plane, the distance from -1 to 1 is 2, not 0

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      7 months ago

      Also, for your version, on a number line or Cartesian plane, the distance from -1 to 1 is 2, not 0

      Yeah. I cheated. You have to either deliberately misunderstand how to measure vectors or else drop a minus sign for it to work my way.

      (Or, from my previous example, you could just frame it as you’re getting the hypotenuse by measuring between |AB| and -|AC|𝑖 instead of the way I framed it – but that makes it more obvious that you’re fishing for a particular answer.)