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[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 9 points 1 year ago

In 1545, an Italian genius called Gerolamo Cardano was pissed he couldn’t solve square root of negative number.

Iirc, it was while trying to solve cubic polynomials, that he found out that accepting the existence of sqrt(-1) let him solve them.