The perfect mathematical joke doesn't exi— Oh wait, it does! From an imaginary number's perspective, being asked to identify as positive or negative is like asking a fish what floor of the building it lives on. Imaginary numbers exist on a completely different axis (the complex plane's imaginary axis), perpendicular to the real number line where positive and negative values reside. That blue "Other" option is the only sensible choice for numbers like √-1 (or "i"), which are neither positive nor negative but imaginary. Next time you meet an imaginary number at a party, don't ask if they're positive or negative - that's just complex-ist!
Well It's Complex
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