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What is the natural logarithm of -1?

 Sep 23, 2014

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there are no natural logarithms for negative numbers.

the only way it will work is if you use an imaginary number.

Example:

log1(1) which is 2, since 12=1

 Sep 23, 2014
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there are no natural logarithms for negative numbers.

the only way it will work is if you use an imaginary number.

Example:

log1(1) which is 2, since 12=1

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With imaginary numbers there are other possibilities.  Since ei*pi = -1 then ln(-1) = ln(ei*pi) = i*pi

More generally we could have ln(-1) = n*i*pi where n is any odd integer.

 Sep 24, 2014

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