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Re: Complex solutions to simple equations

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• Subject: [mg104804] Re: Complex solutions to simple equations
• From: AES <siegman at stanford.edu>
• Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:01:30 -0500 (EST)
• Organization: Stanford University
• References: <hd3mr5$9pv$1@smc.vnet.net> <hd6cg3$pf5$1@smc.vnet.net> <hd8sf9$5vo$1@smc.vnet.net>

In article <hd8sf9$5vo$1 at smc.vnet.net>,
 dragonman <morrisneedleman at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> For goodness sake I am a teacher. Feel free to google me. Its
> Mathematica's representation of solutions I wanted. Feel free to
> apologise any time.
> Many thanks to the helpful posters above.

A very nice reply! -- and one I'd hope may have some impact on this 
group.

Out of curiosity, did your personal background or vocabulary 
(pre-Mathematica) include some conceptual understanding of any of the 
terms

   local vs global variables
   functional vs procedural programming
   mapping

as they are used in Mathematica?