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Yes, I was asking about the square of a negative number


At 16:35 21-02-1998 -0700, you wrote:
>
>Well, he asked for the square of a negative number, not the square root. 
>By the way, the 83 also uses i instead of (0,1).
>---
>Andy Johnson
>"Change is inevitable...
>     except from vending machines"
>
>On Sat, 21 Feb 1998 18:02:50 EST Ekauq@aol.com writes:
>>
>>> 2) I've seen written the call to get the square of a number, but how 
>>can I
>>> get it working with negative numbers?
>>
>>you can't get the square root of a negative number, if you try it at 
>>the home
>>screen you'll get something like (0,1) which means that it's an 
>>imaginary
>>number, on the 92 and the casio calcs it accually puts i. so if you 
>>had (3,1)
>>it would be 3+i.
>>
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