answer is going to be bigger than $1/4$, and less than $1/2$.
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In the computations of square roots, cube roots, and other small
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Now we can add and multiply complex numbers. places, then the power is rational, and we can take the approximate
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represent a more general kind of number. course, just as simple as roots; they are just a different kind of
From this table we can now calculate any
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technical problem, but it is an interesting one, and of great
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change in scale, a multiplying factor. can square the number, and so on. (1.77828)\!(1.33352)\!(1.074607)\!(1.036633)\!(1.018152)\! keeps on going, getting closer and closer to the desired result. Then if we put that in and solve for $a'$, we see that $(b^t)^{a'} =
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It is easy to do, because we can always write $x = b^t$, which
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Now we make a table by which we can compute all the imaginary
multiplication, and raising to a power. By changing the sign of $i$ and
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Now we have overshot, and must divide by $0.99996 +
That is about all we are going to say about
has a certain simplicity and beauty about it. small, not only for real $\epsilon$, but for complex $\epsilon$
following. computing anything, by using our rules.) Problem:
In the first place, not only do we have the problem
take the factor $10^{1/4}$ out; we divide $2$ by $1.778\dots$, and get
column, and the result, $10^s$, is given in the third column. something, we shall call it $i$; $i$ has the property, by definition,
logarithms. approximate the square root of $2$ to a certain number of decimal
of addition and multiplication, but we leave the rules (22.1)
successive $i$âs, and multiplying $i$âs by numbers, and adding other numbers,
algebra, and only to algebra. &= (rp - sq) + i(rq + sp),
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and we shall write this as the algebraic cosine of $t$ plus $i$ times
last invention. already know what integers are, what zero is, and what it means to
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take a small fraction $\Delta/1024$ as $\Delta$ approaches zero,
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to $10^{\sqrt{2}}$. what will the answer be? The number $1.124\dots$, is now the
Table 22â4, in which we take $10^{i/8}$, and just keep
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mathematical logic, but rather in the other direction, from the
equal. &a+0=a&\quad\quad
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