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::::This is a pretty fundamental article, and we should be making it as accessible as possible. This means we shouldn't be expecting someone reading it to be a university student. A good place to aim here is probably someone with at most a reasonable grasp of high school algebra (at least for the beginning of the article; it's okay to get more advanced as we go). We also have to be very careful because education terminology is different around the world, as is when concepts are generally introduced. I, for example, first saw complex numbers in high school algebra, well before I got to college. Maybe that's different elsewhere, but as an encyclopedia, we're really trying to make as much of this understandable to as wide an audience as possible. –[[User:Deacon Vorbis|Deacon Vorbis]] ([[User Talk:Deacon Vorbis|carbon]] • [[Special:Contributions/Deacon Vorbis|videos]]) 14:26, 20 September 2020 (UTC)
:::::I would second what {{u|Deacon Vorbis}} says here. Specifically high school is the correct level for us to be aiming for, and the "{{math|''a'' + ''bi''}} definition" is better for our purposes here than the "(RxR, +, *) definition". And by the way I too was introduced to complex numbers in high school. [[User:Paul August|Paul August]] [[User_talk:Paul August|☎]] 16:05, 20 September 2020 (UTC)
:::::I also second this: High Schoolers do not learn Complex numbers as an extension of the Real numbers into the plane. They learn it first and foremost through the introduction of i as the square root of negative one, then are later shown that such a treatment gives rise to a convenient treatment of the plane. These two ideas are both important and should be given treatment, but extensive formaliation of these two pretty simple concepts right at the beginning of the article only serves to confuse the reader. '''<sub>[[User:IntegralPython| Integral Python]]</sub><sup>''[[User talk:IntegralPython| click here to argue with me]]''</sup>''' 17:49, 20 September 2020 (UTC)
== Worst math article ever ==
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