SOLUTION: √-1=?

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Question 153065: √-1=?
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Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) About Me  (Show Source):
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Since you cannot take the square root of -1 and get a real number, by convention sqrt%28-1%29=i where "i" is an imaginary number