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Re: eight-fold power symmetry - 02-13-2008, 12:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Profpat
why the 4th power is negative and the 8th would be positive
These can be easily demonstrated if you got a graphing calculator that do complex numbers multiplications. Please multiply (1+i)(1-i)=real but (1+i)^4=(1-i)^4=negative while (1+i)^8=(1-i)^8=positive real.

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