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abecedarius
on Feb 11, 2022
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How the modern world arose from imaginary numbers
Details on Heron's missed sqrt(-63):
https://nrich.maths.org/13402
Apparently there's not much to say about how that mistake came up, though.
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Apparently there's not much to say about how that mistake came up, though.