Re: naive question from a non-mathematician
John Smith wrote:
Are a real number x and a complex number whose real part is x and
whose imaginary part is zero mathematically eqivalent? For
example, is (real).123 mathematically eqivalent to (complex).123
+ 0.0i?
zero is zero is zero that it.
however, if you would have asked x + i*(1/infinity) and infinity is complex.
that would be really interesting....
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