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From: akt@mcnc.UUCP (Amit Thakur)
Newsgroups: net.math,net.philosophy
Subject: Re: i**i, foundations and philosophy
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Date: Sun, 19-Feb-84 03:34:59 EST
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Posted: Sun Feb 19 03:34:59 1984
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"real numbers are on a line, complex numbers on a plane."

wonder: are there any numbers in 3-D?  how about in N-D?
as explained by Roger Noe, complex numbers are required to have a
set which is closed with respect to all operations.  does this mean
there are no functions whose answer(s) cannot be found in the complex
plane? if we created (just for fun) numbers in N-D, would we have any
use for them?

akt at ...decvax!mcnc!akt