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The Impossible Number

Curious Cases

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Imagining Numbers Are Crucial to Modeling AC

Steinmetz came in and just said, oh, I can solve all of these problems. He gave them the complex maths that would do it. And AC just won, like, won the day immediately. All of a sudden you could use really easy equations to model AC. That's new. You did get really excited there, Proteus. Tesla was AC. Edison was DC. And what was Angus Young's position? I can't really comment on this conversation to be perfect. The thing is, though, alternating current, positive negative,positive negative, positive negative,. It's that oscillation. If you think about something spinning around in a circle, if above the line

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