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

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

"Don Bruder" <dakidd@sonic.net> wrote in message 
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>>
>> Yes it does. Take "i" and square it. You'll get a negative -1 by 
>> definition.
>
> OK, wise-guy, any *REAL* number...

Did you ever ask yourself why the numbers in many programming languages
are devided into INTEGER and REAL?
*REAL* as opposed to IMAGINARY.

So again by definition "i" can not be represented by real numbers.

>
> Eh... I don't  think that holds, seeing as they are, by definition, an
> infinite distance apart... Rather difficult for two points an infinite
> distance apart to be/occupy the same point, wouldn't you agree?

I would agree if I didn't take a course in the theory of functions of
complex variables. Imaginary numbers are hard to imagine.
Pun intended.

-Alex.