Math Forum http://mathforum.org/kb List of forum topics en Re: In "square root of -1", should we say "minus 1" or "negative 1"? http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=7931220&tstart=0#7931220 >> People state the plus and]]> Dec 2, 2012 10:42:56 PM Dec 3, 2012 12:37:17 PM uprho@yahoo.com 0 Re: In "square root of -1", should we say "minus 1" or "negative 1"? http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=7931221&tstart=0#7931221 On Dec 2, 2012, at 8:42 PM, Joe Niederberger <niederberger@comcast.net> wrote:

>> People state the plus]]> Dec 2, 2012 10:54:30 PM Dec 2, 2012 10:54:30 PM syscore 0 Re: In "square root of -1", should we say "minus 1" or "negative<br> 1"? http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=7931184&tstart=0#7931184 > People state the plus and minus sign when they mean the positive and negative sign.

I'll simply note that]]> Dec 2, 2012 8:42:31 PM Dec 2, 2012 8:42:31 PM niederberger@comcast.net 2