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Imaginary numbers at use in the real world

Marcus du Sautoy begins by looking at the slightly counter-intuitive idea of negative numbers, and then introduces the concept of imaginary numbers. After a short explanation about where imaginary numbers come from, he visits a traffic control tower and talks about how important these numbers are for tracking planes in real time.

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