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### Complete instead of Complex, Irregular instead of Imaginary

Will the terms complex and imaginary ever be replaced? At least within beginning classes? I imagine it is more of a kind of hazing into the "mathemitician's club" to allow the terms to confuse ...
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### How is each factor of an expression called?

$$mc^2.$$ is called an expression. Correct me if I'm wrong. I'd like to see this expression as $$m * c^2.$$ Here, one of the expression's factors is $m$. Is there a general name for the factors of an ...
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### No radical in the denominator — why?

Why do all school algebra texts define simplest form for expressions with radicals to not allow a radical in the denominator. For the classic example, $1/\sqrt{3}$ needs to be "simplified" to ...
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