Re: i: imaginary solution to constraints of a real number system? or just a hoax
From: Bill Dubuque (wgd_at_nestle.csail.mit.edu)
Date: 08/26/04
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Date: 26 Aug 2004 10:26:53 -0400
Gerry Myerson <gerry@maths.mq.edi.ai.i2u4email> writes:
> Bill Dubuque <wgd@nestle.csail.mit.edu> wrote:
> > David Moran <dmoran@rossby.metr.ou.edu> wrote:
> > >
> > > (-1)^2=1; -(1^2)=-1
> > >
> > > Look at the graph of f(x)=x^2 and you will see that you're wrong.
> >
> > That's circular reasoning since to plot x^2 for x<0 requires
> > knowledge of the Law of Signs.
>
> Wouldn't it be parabolic reasoning in this case?
But it is also elliptic, falling short of proof.
Hence it is completely comical, errr... conical.
Ahhh, elliptic rants touching on circular parables;
surely we've reached the pinnacle of conehead humor!
--Bill Dubuque
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