• An imaginary number is the product of a real number and the imaginary unit i, which is defined by its property i2 = −1. The square of an imaginary number...
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  • An Imaginary Tale (French: Une histoire inventée) is a 1990 Canadian drama film directed by André Forcier. The film was selected as the Canadian entry...
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    The imaginary unit or unit imaginary number (i) is a solution to the quadratic equation x2 + 1 = 0. Although there is no real number with this property...
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    complex number is an element of a number system that extends the real numbers with a specific element denoted i, called the imaginary unit and satisfying...
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    Selkie (section Orkney tales)
    p. 175. Dennison (1893), pp. 175–176: Dennison believed it to be "an imaginary tale, invented by gossips". Hibbert (1891), p. 264. Dennison (1893), p...
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    James R. (1938). Solid Mensuration with Proofs. p. 67. Nahin, Paul. An Imaginary Tale: The story of √−1. Princeton University Press. 1998 "Mathwords.com:...
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  • Sandifer (1999) Review:Imaginary Tale from Mathematical Association of America. Blank, Brian E. (November 1999). "Review of An imaginary tale: The story of √-1...
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    on the square root spiral, arXiv:0712.2184 Nahin, Paul J. (1998), An Imaginary Tale: The Story of − 1 {\displaystyle {\sqrt {-1}}} , Princeton University...
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    John Wiley & Sons, 2011 ISBN 978-0-471-43331-6. Nahin, Paul J.; An Imaginary Tale; Princeton University Press; (hardcover, 1998). ISBN 0-691-02795-1...
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  • childhood imaginary friend Phoebe Waller-Bridge as Blossom, an excitable humanoid butterfly who was Bea’s grandmother’s childhood imaginary friend Louis...
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  • was the first story in which Superman and Lois marry that was not an "imaginary tale." Many Superman stories since then have depicted Superman and Lois...
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  • Look up Tale or tale in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Tale may refer to: Narrative, or story, a report of real or imaginary connected events TAL effector...
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    predatory, carnivorous version of the koala. This imaginary animal is commonly spoken about in tall tales designed to scare tourists. While koalas are typically...
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    Press. ISBN 978-0-262-08040-8. OCLC 185662235. Nahin, Paul J. (2010). An Imaginary Tale: The Story of √-1. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9 78-1-4008-3389-4...
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  • Universe removed many stories from "official canon", explaining them as Imaginary Tales or ignoring them completely.[citation needed] Retcon or "ret-con" is...
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  • Gamma. Princeton. ISBN 978-0-691-09983-5. Paul J. Nahin (1998). An Imaginary Tale: The Story of − 1 {\displaystyle {\sqrt {-1}}} . Princeton. ISBN 978-0691027951...
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  • The Handmaid's Tale is a feminist dystopian novel, combining the characteristics of dystopian fiction: "a genre that projects an imaginary society that...
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    character that originated in children's fiction, as the imaginary author of a collection of French fairy tales and later of English nursery rhymes. She also appeared...
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  • Chapter VI, §I.1 Maxwell 1959, Chapter VI, §II Nahin, Paul J. (2010). An Imaginary Tale: The Story of "i". Princeton University Press. p. 12. ISBN 978-1-4008-3029-9...
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  • Times. (June 12, 2008) 'Love Letters' book in 'Sex and City' movie an imaginary tale, Albany Times Union (Albany, New York) Strauss, Victoria (May 23,...
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    doi:10.1016/S0377-0427(01)00496-4 as PDF Nahin, Paul J. (1998), An Imaginary Tale: The Story of − 1 {\displaystyle {\sqrt {-1}}} , Princeton, New Jersey:...
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  • foray into writing for herself as an actress was her 1996 one-woman show Letters to Ben Stein, an imaginary tale of an epistolary romance with the actor/economist...
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    Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends is an American animated television series created by Craig McCracken for Cartoon Network. It was produced by Cartoon...
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    The Canterbury Tales (Middle English: Tales of Caunterbury) is a collection of twenty-four stories that runs to over 17,000 lines written in Middle English...
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  • Drouin and François Dompierre's I. She appeared in films including An Imaginary Tale (Une histoire inventée), The Wind from Wyoming (Le vent du Wyoming)...
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    European fairy tale about a young girl and a sly wolf. Its origins can be traced back to several pre-17th-century European folk tales. The two best known...
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  • movie, Telescene Film Group Productions 1987 - writer and producer An Imaginary Tale - feature, Telescene Film Group Productions, André Forcier 1990 -...
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  • Changed Its Spots: The Evolution of Complexity by Brian Goodwin (1997) An Imaginary Tale: The Story of − 1 {\displaystyle {\sqrt {-1}}} by Paul J. Nahin (1998)...
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  • fall, the public needed more time to see films, so the ceremony was moved to an autumn date. There was also a fundamental change in voting procedures; now...
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  • Elseworlds (redirect from Imaginary Stories)
    Robert Kanigher supervised Wonder Woman's own series of Imaginary Stories called Impossible Tales which featured the same principle.[citation needed] There...
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