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Who regarded a + ib as an ordered pair of real numbers (a, b)?
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BW.R. Hamilton
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DAlbert Girard
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. W.R. Hamilton
Hamilton, around 1830, defined the complex number as an ordered pair of reals, removing the idea of mysterious imaginary numbers.
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