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Can we mathematically justify associating the concept of the imaginary unit with some kind of stagewise concept of negation?
"i" is the rotation operator which when multiplied with a vector in the complex plane, rotates it by a quarter turn counterclockwise.
As such it has no linguistic significance. But since ...
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