What about plain old x = -10?
-10 ^ 2 = 100
-10 ^ 3 = -1000
-10 ^ 5 = -100000
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When all you have is an imaginary hammer, everything looks like a rotation around the imaginary unit circle.
Explanation of maths
x = -10, i = √-1 so i² = -1 and 10i²=-10
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Wait, isn’t x just -10 if x^3 is not 1000?
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that is a very long way to write -10
My brain
It hurts
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What an extremely unnecessary explanation. As a math teacher I would have deducted points for this answer.
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No definition what values are suitable for x.
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