How do you simplify the imaginary number #sqrt(-17)#?

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Oct 25, 2016

#sqrt(-1)sqrt17=isqrt17#

Explanation:

We can take #sqrt(-17)# and write it this way:

#sqrt(-1xx17)=sqrt(-1)sqrt(17)#

Turns out that we use #sqrt(-1)# quite frequently in mathematics and so it has earned itself its own shorthand: #i#, and so

#sqrt(-1)sqrt17=isqrt17#

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