Power and Root
Fallacies involving disregarding the rules of elementary arithmetic through an incorrect manipulation of the radical. For complex numbers the failure of power and logarithm identities has led to many fallacies.
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when will you break my wings
or leave them utterly free
to scale heaven endlessly?”
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“Black creeps from root to root,
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—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)