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Key People:: Carl Friedrich Gauss; Abraham de Moivre

Related Topics:: quaternion; Argand diagram; complex variable; imaginary number; Gaussian integer

complex number, number of the formx +yi, in whichx andy are real numbers andi is the imaginary unit such thati² = -1.Seenumerals and numeral systems.

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