If you had one negative number in it, then the product would be a negative number and, if you took a root of that, then you might get an imaginary number.
如果这当中有一个负数,乘积就会变成负的,如果你对一个负数开根号,你就会得到一个虚数。
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In fact, it can generally be a complex number with both a "real" part that's an ordinary number and an "imaginary" part that's multiplied by the square root of one.
事实上,它通常是一个复数的形式,包括普通数字的实数部分和需要乘以负一的平方根的虚部。
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WHEN Charlotte Hobbs decided to teach her 11-year-old pupil about the "imaginary" maths needed to work out the square root of a negative number, she knew it would be a stretch.