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[xJeremyx]

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[AviatorTom]

Does an imaginary number have any square roots?

[xJeremyx]

An imaginary number is defined as the square root of a negative number.

In that sense you cannot square root any single imaginary number on its own due to the nature of į.

However, you can treat it like a function and represent it as such, eg. 2į = 1 + 2į - 1 = (1+į)^2. In this case, I treated it like a quadratic function , with the exception of not having į^2, as that is simply -1. As such, we end up with a perfect square root. So yes, imaginary numbers do have square roots.

[AviatorTom]

Thanks for the detailed answer.