Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site dalcs.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!dartvax!dalcs!holmes 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 Article-I.D.: dalcs.635 Posted: Mon Feb 20 15:43:50 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 21-Feb-84 05:02:51 EST References: <899@inmet.UUCP> Organization: Dalhousie U, Halifax N.S. Lines: 14 [] >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.....