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``Re: Obtuse Definition'' by azdbacks4234 on 2009-02-08 12:57:45
I've never known a high-school student that I would expect to understand this definition because it's not intended for high-school students. You are confusing the notion of the conjugate of a complex number with conjugates in the sense of Galois Theory. These are definitely not the same thing. Moreover, this is not a case of "extreme abstraction," but a standard definition in advanced undergraduate\beginning graduate math curriculum.
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