JoshuaZ comments on On Pi day, we eat pie; On Tau day, we eat Taoists?

JoshuaZ 15 Mar 2011 2:45 UTC
−2 points

However, on behalf of my left-handed friends, I claim that -i is the true square root of −1.

The map x+iy → x-iy is an isomorphism. So i and -i are mathematically indistinguishable.
- komponisto 15 Mar 2011 4:10 UTC
  4 points
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  Yes, that was precisely the joke. :-)