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Question 1

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Why do we require students to understand and work with numbers that eluded the greatest mathematical minds for thousands of years?

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Question 2

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Why did we even come to accept negative and imaginary numbers in the first place, when they don't really seem connected to anything in the real world?

Question 3

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Any thoughts about why one group of numbers is called 'real' and the other 'imaginary'?