[Potironette]

Ohh, so f(x) means, the function where real number x is put into it, whereas f(x + yi) means the function where a complex number is put into it, in which the real number is on the x axis and the imaginary numbers are represented by the y axis?

Yes, if you look at JUST imaginary numbers, then they are indeed one-dimensional. However, the main reason you can't plot a function using imaginary numbers in two dimensions is because if you multiply two imaginary numbers together, you get a real number, so you wouldn't have a way to plot it.

So..basically for things like y=x² you can't plot imaginary numbers because when every x is an imaginary, x squared would be a real and thus not on a graph where both axis are imaginary..? But then y = x would be graphable and maybe y = x³ would be too..? But then there is a way to plot it--I think I'm misunderstanding something :/

You COULD meaningfully plot it in THREE dimensions, and you'd get a single curve, not a surface.

Err, what's the difference between a curve and a surface? In fact, what is a curve and what is a surface?


Thanks for the definition of the pacifying issue! I wasn't seeing it while googling it. The person speaking about it was saying that the environmental issue was not just a pacifying issue but in fact serious, and I'd been confused about what he meant.