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What imaginary number means in math is: "the square root of minus 1"

Which is true but confusing, so

All "real" numbers lie in a straight line from minus very large, through zero, to plus very large.

Now draw that line on a sheet of paper (don't worry about the fact that the line theoretically goes way beyond the paper).

See all the white space left ?

That's where "imaginary" numbers all fit.

"imaginary" is just a word they use for those numbers that exist in more than one dimensional space.

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The only thing I can think of that you might mean is an imaginary or complex number. Since there is no solution to √(-1) mathematicians labeled it as i which is the imaginary number, and any number that includes purely i is also imaginary. Complex numbers are a mix of both real and imaginary numbers. for example 3 is real, 5i is imaginary and 3+5i is complex. Hopefully this answers what you meant.


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