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Any way of calculating square root of a negative number on HP 35S?
01-23-2019, 08:50 AM
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RE: Any way of calculating square root of a negative number on HP 35S?
(01-22-2019 10:32 PM)zeno333 Wrote:  Is there any way of doing square roots of a negative number on the 35S and getting back a complex result?

There is a simple rule:
The 35s usually tries to return a real result. If no real result exists, it returns an error.
But if at least one argument is complex, it returns a complex result.

So there is an easy solution: use 0,5 i 0 yx.

–2 [ENTER] 0,5 i 0 [yx] => 0 i 1,4142....

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