SOLUTION: is a pure imaginary number an imaginary number ?

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Question 1012787: is a pure imaginary number an imaginary number ?
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Yes. A pure imaginary number is just some real number times i, and thus imaginary. This is to be distinguished from a complex number which is a real number plus or minus an imaginary number. Of course all imaginary numbers are also complex, the real part being zero...