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programjames
10 months ago
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Eh, imaginary numbers were
invented
to be useful. Cardano needed them as intermediary steps when plugging in his cubic formula.
_zoltan_
10 months ago
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one could argue that they weren't invented, merely found. nothing is invented, just discovered in math :-)
also the modern complex plane definition is not from Cardano.
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