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Re: negative real number

Subject: Re: negative real number
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Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 13:44:37 GMT
Newsgroups: sci.math
On Sat, 29 Apr 2006 15:29:42 GMT, "John Doe" <johndoe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
' Have the decency to givw a valid e-mail address!
>Does anyone understand this question:

Obviously!
Thinking about a problem sometimes helps!
    "i" is the complex number
  i^2 = -1,
  i^3 = -i,
  i^4 = 1
 so i^n = -1 for n = 2,6,10,14,18,22,26,30, ......

>(-i)^n is a negative real number if n =
>A 21
>B 22
>C 23
>D 24
>E 25
>Answer is 22 
>

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