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March 30th 2006, 04:41 PM
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(which is exactly the same as complex number)

i realise that and in fact said so many times.

Crappy tutor you had, or at least crappy in non-elementary algebra

You don't have enough yet information to know that. Here's why: we aren't up to universal algrebra yet (if we're covering it at all). We are only up to simplistic algrebra (multiplication, division, subtration, addition, roots and powers (including fractional and negative powers)). It would be a bad idea for him to confuse by going into universal algrebra at this point. To do so would in fact make him a "crappy tutor" as you put it. In fact in not going into a level above our understanding he is in fact a good tutor. We still have a lot to go in our algrebra section, but I don't think we'll be going into universal algrebra since he said "I am not going to teach you about complex numbers in this paper because this is a bridging mathematics paper, not an advanced mathematics paper. If you want to learn about advanced mathematics you can do that when you go onto doing your degree,as there are plenty of papers that cover it." Clarification: this paper is trying to cover Years 1-13 of maths in one semester, meaning that it has to leave a lot of more advanced stuff out due to time limits. Also due to what it is trying to due it is not neccessary for it to teach the more advanced stuff, especially since the university (and all others in the country) offer plenty of papers for people to learn those areas of maths from.