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Recent Examples on the Web The new paper shows that treating the system as real requires introducing extra information that usually resides in the imaginary part of the wave function. — Quanta Magazine, "Imaginary Numbers May Be Essential for Describing Reality," 3 Mar. 2021 In this solution, known as the Argand (or complex) plane, the location of every point is the sum of a real part for its horizontal distance and an imaginary part for its vertical distance from the origin. — Quanta Magazine, "How to Find Simple Treasures in Complex Numbers," 14 Feb. 2019 Complex numbers are made up of a real part and an imaginary part. — Quanta Magazine, "The (Imaginary) Numbers at the Edge of Reality," 25 Oct. 2018

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“Imaginary part.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/imaginary%20part. Accessed 20 Apr. 2021.

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