An imaginary number is a number that cannot exist. An example of an imaginary number would be: the square root of negative nine, or any negative number.
When I try to think of any two of the same numbers that would multiply together to be negative nine, all I can think of is 3 or -3. when I square both of those numbers, I get the number 9, not -9. When I multiply two negatives together, I get a positive number, therefore there is no possible way to get the square root of -9, or any negative number.
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If a number is pure imaginary then it has no real component. If it is a real number, then there is no imaginary component. If it has both real and imaginary components, then it is a complex number.
an imaginary number is imaginary so no (i guess) this answer kind of sucks
-125 is NOT an imaginary number.
An imaginary number is a number that has the square root of -1 as one of its factors.
A pure imaginary number is a complex number that has 0 for its real part, such as 0+7i.