This is a perfect illustration of why education (on all topics) is so important. They could be totally making this up and I'd have no idea.
Incidentally, it's a big reason people think things like "the free market is awesome" and "DoD needs a trillion $/yr but we can't have universal healthcare"
Elim Garak
Equally imaginary numbers that are the square root of –1 but in different directions in 3 dimensional space
You can do rotation and scaling very easily when you assign directions to square roots of –1,
