Saturday, July 21, 2012

Solution #29

Recall that i2 = -1, i3 = -i, and i4 = 1. Thus i-1 = i3 = -i.

So we have (i - i-1)-1 = (i - -i)-1 = (2i)-1 = (1/2)(i-1) = (1/2)(-i) = -i/2.

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