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Microwaves seem to be able to spend “imaginary time” inside a material, but this bizarre phenomenon has never been shown to correspond to something real and measurable in the lab – until now. “It’s ...

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To a nonmathematician, having the letter “i” represent a number that does not quite exist and is “imaginary” can be hard to wrap your head around. If you open your mind to this way of thinking, ...

Students in Melissa Williams' kindergarten class at the Westminster School in Atlanta, Georgia, practice connecting quantities to written numbers — a key part of number sense. Credit: Holly Korbey for ...

Complex numbers seem to have an almost mystical aura surrounding them. Perhaps it’s because of the terminology used for them – for example, they have a ‘real part’ and an ‘imaginary part’, and they ...

Among the natural numbers below 100, there are 30 with a special property. Jovan has listed them in the table here. But Jovan made a mistake, and one of these numbers must be replaced. Which number ...