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Put all your repos into one.
What is the point of the file called
i?it's like
/dev/zerobut it's the square root of-1Millions of math teachers having a heart attack.
I would hope that maths teachers have encountered imaginary numbers before starting to teach maths, even if they don't teach complex number theory at the particular age-group of their students.
I was talking about the fact that, even if
i^2 = -1, the square root of negative numbers does not exist ever.That's how they got the name
They sure do, here's the Wikipedia article. This comes naturally as you define i and consider how mathematical operations work with it.
The file calles i was a accident because that was the Limine license,and I did it in one repo and now IU amworking with different releases and tags