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What multiplies to 3 and adds to 2

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There is no pair of real numbers that can do that job.

The two numbers that CAN are ...

1 + √2 i
and
1 - √2 i

The ' i ' is the symbol used to stand for the square root of -1 .

(Yes, I know ... Negative numbers don't have square roots.
But there's a whole section of math built on the idea of the
square root of -1, and the symbol most often used to represent
that is ' i ' ... for "imaginary".)

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