[ExI] Not very bright

[Damien Broderick]

On 7/15/2010 4:51 PM, Ben Zaiboc wrote:

> Square root of minus 2?? what the hell does that even mean? I have NO idea, and can't see how anyone does.

It's a calculational device, comrade. Like minus 6 pastries. 1.41421356 i.

And you can draw the damned thing easily on a Cartesian graph or plane, 
where one axis is the real numbers and the other is the imaginary 
numbers. Easy as psi. I mean pi.

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_plane>

Damien Broderick