Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mcnc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!akgua!mcnc!akt From: akt@mcnc.UUCP (Amit Thakur) Newsgroups: net.math,net.philosophy Subject: Re: i**i, foundations and philosophy Message-ID: <1959@mcnc.UUCP> Date: Sun, 19-Feb-84 03:34:59 EST Article-I.D.: mcnc.1959 Posted: Sun Feb 19 03:34:59 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 20-Feb-84 07:26:49 EST References: <230@houem.UUCP>, <363@ihlts.UUCP> Organization: Microelectronics Ctr. of NC; RTP, NC Lines: 12 "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