Saturday, November 4, 2017

complex numbers - What did I do wrong? 1 = √1 = √(-1)(-1) = √(-1) √(-1) = i.i = i² = -1

I'm a simple man living my life and enjoying mathematics now and then. Today during lunch my friend asked me about complex numbers and i. I told him what I knew and we went back to work.



After work I decided to read up on complex numbers and I somehow ended up with this equation:



1=1=(1)(1)=(1) (1)=ii=i²=1




Somehow I got that 1=1. I can't see a contradiction. Did I just break math? What happened? Where is my mistake?

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