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Feb 22, 2023 at 7:32 comment added Ruslan @user24096 indeed, and Google is also helpful to provide some relevant search results and suggested queries, while the answer of WA is quite insensible to those who had never heard of the imaginary unit (though why would you query a square root of a negative number if you don't suspect what the answer might be?).
Feb 22, 2023 at 4:54 comment added user18187 @Ruslan: Nowadays if you enter $\sqrt {-1}$ in say Google or Wolfram Alpha, you do get "$i$".
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Sep 27, 2016 at 15:48 comment added Ruslan @JpMcCarthy I suppose students do know that no real number has negative square. This has been known to people far earlier than complex numbers were invented.
Sep 27, 2016 at 14:33 comment added JP McCarthy @Ruslan --- yes I know this: I am saying that the students will ask what the "error" means
Sep 27, 2016 at 12:35 comment added Ruslan @JpMcCarthy is it a question? The error means that the result can't be represented/approximated as an N-digit real number. You get the same error on overflow or division by zero.
Sep 27, 2016 at 11:47 comment added JP McCarthy @Ruslan yes...what does that error mean.
Sep 25, 2016 at 6:58 comment added Ruslan The majority of calculators, even scientific/engineering ones will give you an error, not $i$.
Sep 24, 2016 at 20:57 comment added Dag Oskar Madsen Welcome to the site. Could you summarize the answer from Dr. Math?
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