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Powers of imaginary part Powers of imaginary part.

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All the powers of the imaginary part can be determined if we keep in mind the property that i is the square root of -1 or i^2 = -1.

Higher powers are easily resolved once this is done.

For example:

i^3 = -1*i = -i

i^4 = (-1)^2 = 1

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