(February 13, 2022 at 1:00 pm)FlatAssembler Wrote:(February 13, 2022 at 12:40 pm)polymath257 Wrote: The correct term is 'complex numbers', just like the correct term for fractions is 'rational numbers'. You don't get to change to a different adjective even if it would be correct in ordinary language.
And, really, the only thing you need to know about complex numbers is that i^2 =-1. All the rest of algebra works the same (although order properties don't exist).
What is "algebra"? I have heard that word, and I know it is something related to mathematics, but I do not know what it means.
1/s+1/(s+2)+1/(s+6-2i)+1/(s+6+2i)=1/(s+1) is algebra. The letters in it makes it algebra.
