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From: holmes@dalcs.UUCP (Ray Holmes)
Newsgroups: net.math
Subject: Re: More on i**i - (and public school standards)
Message-ID: <635@dalcs.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 20-Feb-84 15:43:50 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 20 15:43:50 1984
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>As I mentioned last week (in net.kids), I was once kicked out of high school
>for asking my math teacher if there could be such a thing as sqrt(i).  Rather
>than admit her ignorance, she accused me of "disrupting the class with smart-
>aleck remarks" and attempted to have me suspended for a week.

Funny thing about that. I can remember being kicked out of a grade 6 (I
think) class for telling another student that there was a "funny" number
(called pi) that was realy the ratio of the circumference to the diameter
and WAS NOT 22/7!

Then again, that was the same teacher who kicked me out for objecting to
her theory that an eclipse of the sun was when the sun was between the earth
and the moon! Oh well.....