>>11157297It's a nitpick regarding the definition of "spawn".
Historically, it is indeed that they spawned from attempts to solve third degree polynomials.
But one can also say that they spawn from the definition of i being a solution to x^2+1=0. In this case, "spawn" meaning something along the lines of following through with the implications of such a definition, so we see that multiplying i by any real number, we get an imaginary number.
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