Wednesday, November 4, 2020

What is Imaginary Number

Imaginary numbers are the numbers which don't belong to real world.
What does it mean?
From childhood we have learnt about so many numbers, be it natural numbers, whole numbers, integers, rational numbers, irrational numbers etc. But all these are called Real numbers. Besides these numbers there is also one type of number which contains negative sign under the square root. Viz, √-1, √-4 etc. They are called imaginary numbers.
The general form of imaginary number is a+ib