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09434 Re: Full Interview The 21st Centurys Greatest Living Scientist | Roger Penrose Explains Twistor Theory
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ribit   GRITZ   09 Jun 2025
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09416 Re: Full Interview The 21st Centurys Greatest Living Scientist | Roger Penrose Explains Twistor Theory
   
I STILL remember being told early in my Mathematics education "You can NOT take the square root of a negative number!" . . . And then learning that when one takes the square root - it should be 'Plus or Minus' the square root. And, finally, Imaginary Numbers.

And Vectors. Vectors and imaginary number arithmetic go hand in hand.

Interesting thing about Python (Programming) . . It seems to like complex numbers. I wrote some code to implement the quadratic equation . . and it gave me the answer - complex numbers and all.

Zim.




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