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A beautiful new playground – further investigations into i to the power i

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2016

Greg Parker
Affiliation:
Dept. of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton SO17 1BJ
Steve Roberts
Affiliation:
Dept. of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton SO17 1BJ

Extract

In an earlier note the iterative behaviour of taking the unit imaginary, i, to higher and higher powers of i was described. This iterative power sequence converged to a limit. In order to make discussion of later developments simpler we need to introduce some definitions.

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Copyright © Mathematical Association 1998 

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