The Weirdest Result in Mathematics

The craziest discovery in history

Kasper Müller
Cantor’s Paradise
6 min readJul 6, 2023

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What is i^i and what does this even mean?

The answer might surprise you!

We define the number i = ✓-1. This might seem a little mysterious as we all learned in school that we cannot take the square root of a negative number. Newsflash: we can, and we do all the time. If you think that is strange…

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