Re: Help with confirmation on a small bit of assembly?

["Alex Freed" <alexf@mirrow.com>]

"Don Bruder" <dakidd@sonic.net> wrote in message 
news:45bd1ec5$0$68960$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net...

> Imaginary number: A real number * i, where the value of i is most
> commonly held to be equal to the square root of negative 2.

Make that "the square root of negative 1".

>
> What's so imaginary about that?
>
> Ever tried taking the square root of a negative number? Or squaring a
> number (ANY number, negative or positive) to get a negative result?
> Doesn't work too well, does it? :)

Yes it does. Take "i" and square it. You'll get a negative -1 by definition.
This also answers your question "What's so imaginary about that?"

One thing that is even stranger is that all the "infinities" (if this word 
has a plural form)
are the same point on the plane.

-Alex.