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At the time when they were first explored, you could've easily said the same thing about subatomic particles, imaginary numbers and many other concepts of the like. Scientific advancement isn't always linear and the value of many discoveries is often only apparent after the fact, often after a considerable amount of time has passed.


Eh, imaginary numbers were invented to be useful. Cardano needed them as intermediary steps when plugging in his cubic formula.


one could argue that they weren't invented, merely found. nothing is invented, just discovered in math :-)

also the modern complex plane definition is not from Cardano.




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