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Hi everyone, I’m currently trying to dive into some lessons before school starts and I’m taking algebra 2 this year and the lessons that I am currently studying about is imaginary numbers. I had a few questions so if anyone could help me out that’d be great! Starting off, while watching the video, the guy explaining says that j^4 = 1 because it is like j times j^3 and I’m just confused because I don’t understand where they got the 1 from…

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An imaginary number is a complex number that can be written as a real number multiplied by the imaginary unit i, which is defined by its property i² = −1. The square of an imaginary number bi is −b². For example, 5i is an imaginary number, and its square is −25
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