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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wait, what happened in the second to last bullet point? You can't convert a power like that when subtracting (you can when dividing).

It's like you'd convert "2^4 - 2" into "2^(4-1)", which gives two different results (14 vs 8).

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For those curious, I threw 🥤^i - 🥤 = 3 into wolfram.

🥤 ≈ -2.97983 + 0.0388569 i... or 🥤 ≈ 0.27972 - 0.748461 i...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

You're right, idk what I was thinking there 😕