AAH Math Team
Saturday, July 21, 2012
Solution #29
Recall that i
2
= -1, i
3
= -i, and i
4
= 1. Thus i
-1
= i
3
= -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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