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  2. Object of the mind - Wikipedia

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    For example, acting is a profession which predicates real jobs on fictional premises. Charades is a game people play by guessing imaginary objects from short play-acts. Imaginary personalities and histories are sometimes invented to enhance the verisimilitude of fictional universes, and/or the immersion of role-playing games. In the sense that ...

  3. Complex number - Wikipedia

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    The solution in radicals (without trigonometric functions) of a general cubic equation, when all three of its roots are real numbers, contains the square roots of negative numbers, a situation that cannot be rectified by factoring aided by the rational root test, if the cubic is irreducible; this is the so-called casus irreducibilis ...

  4. Complex conjugate root theorem - Wikipedia

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    It follows from the present theorem and the fundamental theorem of algebra that if the degree of a real polynomial is odd, it must have at least one real root. [2] This can be proved as follows. Since non-real complex roots come in conjugate pairs, there are an even number of them; But a polynomial of odd degree has an odd number of roots;

  5. Polynomial root-finding algorithms - Wikipedia

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    Finding roots in a specific region of the complex plane, typically the real roots or the real roots in a given interval (for example, when roots represents a physical quantity, only the real positive ones are interesting). For finding one root, Newton's method and other general iterative methods work generally well.

  6. Generalized Kac–Moody algebra - Wikipedia

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    In other words, we allow simple roots to be imaginary, whereas in a Kac–Moody algebra simple roots are always real. A generalized Kac–Moody algebra is obtained from a universal one by changing the Cartan matrix, by the operations of killing something in the center, or taking a central extension, or adding outer derivations.

  7. Casus irreducibilis - Wikipedia

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    Moreover, if the polynomial degree is a power of 2 and the roots are all real, then if there is a root that can be expressed in real radicals it can be expressed in terms of square roots and no higher-degree roots, as can the other roots, and so the roots are classically constructible. Casus irreducibilis for quintic polynomials is discussed by ...

  8. Nested radical - Wikipedia

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    In the case in which the cubic has only one real root, the real root is given by this expression with the radicands of the cube roots being real and with the cube roots being the real cube roots. In the case of three real roots, the square root expression is an imaginary number; here any real root is expressed by defining the first cube root to ...

  9. Ramanujan–Petersson conjecture - Wikipedia

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    would have always imaginary roots from many examples. The relationship between roots and coefficients of quadratic equations leads to the third relation, called Ramanujan's conjecture. Moreover, for the Ramanujan tau function, let the roots of the above quadratic equation be α and β, then