Monday, September 15, 2008

Imaginary i


i is a bautiful number and concept. Today, as I was doing i problems, I realized that all negative numbers could be viewed as "imaginary", or contrived, numbers. Numbers began with the need to count objects. So... how do we count "negative five". We can't; unless we "imagine" five objects that were there, or that will be there, to count. The concept is great.