Re: how can I return nothing?
- From: richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Richard Tobin)
- Date: 19 Sep 2007 23:25:10 GMT
In article <87sl5anseq.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Well... i is not really sqrt(-1) since there are two complex numbers
which are not equal to one another which power of two is equal -1 and
i cannot be equal to both numbers. :P
Would you also say that 2 is not really sqrt(4), since there are
two real numbers whose square is 4 and 2 cannot be equal to both
of them?
(You do have a point though: there is no way to distinguish between
i and -i.)
-- Richard
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