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Imaginary Number

For many years, numbers like are


meaningless.

Girolamo Cardano called these


square root of negative numbers
The solution is not real
“fictitious numbers” while Rene because no real number is

Descartes called it imaginary equal to when squared.

numbers.

Euler denoted the expression by


the letter so that
Definition

Imaginary Number “i”


The imaginary number “i” has the following
properties:
Definition

Definition of
For any positive real number n, .
For an even integer n, is only
defined for non negative real
number x.
Imaginary
Number
Is any nonzero real number
multiple of
For an even integer n, is only
defined for non negative real
number x.
Imaginary
Number
Is any nonzero real number
multiple of
Take Note

– If the index is even, such as and so on,


the radicand must be nonnegative for
the root to be real number.

– While, if the index is odd, the radicand


may be any real number.
Misconceptions
Examples
LHS:

2. RHS:

3.

Since , then

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