Imaginary number

Imaginary number - complex number that can be written as a real number multiplied by i. Article "Imaginary number" in English Wikipedia has 34.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 15 references and 8 sections.

This article has the best quality in Latin Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Since the creation of article "Imaginary number", its content was written by 478 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1483 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 264 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2133 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #431 in November 2001
• Global: #483 in November 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #15939 in August 2012
• Global: #13099 in August 2012

There are 41 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Latin (la) Quantitas imaginaria		44.2366
2	Catalan (ca) Nombre imaginari		42.7895
3	Tamil (ta) கற்பனை எண்		41.8492
4	Hindi (hi) काल्पनिक संख्या		35.0783
5	English (en) Imaginary number		34.8095
6	Polish (pl) Liczby urojone		31.0186
7	Lithuanian (lt) Menamasis skaičius		27.3964
8	Spanish (es) Número imaginario		27.2306
9	Serbian (sr) Имагинарни број		26.9246
10	Chinese (zh) 虚数		26.0918

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Imaginary number" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Imaginary number		5 857 521
2	Spanish (es) Número imaginario		3 400 512
3	Japanese (ja) 虚数		1 367 446
4	German (de) Imaginäre Zahl		1 010 932
5	Chinese (zh) 虚数		577 776
6	Polish (pl) Liczby urojone		503 049
7	Portuguese (pt) Número imaginário		401 164
8	French (fr) Nombre imaginaire pur		381 295
9	Indonesian (id) Bilangan imajiner		352 548
10	Korean (ko) 허수		254 850

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Imaginary number" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Imaginary number		16 011
2	Japanese (ja) 虚数		4 206
3	German (de) Imaginäre Zahl		3 122
4	Spanish (es) Número imaginario		2 692
5	Chinese (zh) 虚数		2 393
6	Korean (ko) 허수		1 746
7	Polish (pl) Liczby urojone		1 380
8	French (fr) Nombre imaginaire pur		1 022
9	Simple English (simple) Imaginary number		828
10	Portuguese (pt) Número imaginário		633

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Imaginary number" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Imaginary number		478
2	Spanish (es) Número imaginario		128
3	German (de) Imaginäre Zahl		111
4	Chinese (zh) 虚数		59
5	French (fr) Nombre imaginaire pur		58
6	Polish (pl) Liczby urojone		55
7	Japanese (ja) 虚数		48
8	Hebrew (he) מספר מדומה		47
9	Dutch (nl) Imaginair getal		38
10	Korean (ko) 허수		36

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Imaginary number" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Spanish (es) Número imaginario		2
2	Indonesian (id) Bilangan imajiner		2
3	Armenian (hy) Երևակայական թիվ		1
4	Polish (pl) Liczby urojone		1
5	Arabic (ar) عدد تخيلي		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Имагинерно число		0
7	Catalan (ca) Nombre imaginari		0
8	German (de) Imaginäre Zahl		0
9	Greek (el) Φανταστικός αριθμός		0
10	English (en) Imaginary number		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Imaginary number" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Imaginary number		264
2	German (de) Imaginäre Zahl		225
3	French (fr) Nombre imaginaire pur		171
4	Chinese (zh) 虚数		163
5	Japanese (ja) 虚数		102
6	Spanish (es) Número imaginario		94
7	Korean (ko) 허수		89
8	Catalan (ca) Nombre imaginari		83
9	Hebrew (he) מספר מדומה		79
10	Turkish (tr) Sanal sayılar		65

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic عدد تخيلي
bg	Bulgarian Имагинерно число
ca	Catalan Nombre imaginari
de	German Imaginäre Zahl
el	Greek Φανταστικός αριθμός
en	English Imaginary number
eo	Esperanto Imaginara nombro
es	Spanish Número imaginario
et	Estonian Imaginaararv
eu	Basque Zenbaki irudikari
fa	Persian عدد موهومی
fi	Finnish Imaginaariluku
fr	French Nombre imaginaire pur
gl	Galician Número imaxinario
he	Hebrew מספר מדומה
hi	Hindi काल्पनिक संख्या
hr	Croatian Imaginarni broj
hy	Armenian Երևակայական թիվ
id	Indonesian Bilangan imajiner
ja	Japanese 虚数
ka	Georgian წარმოსახვითი რიცხვი
kk	Kazakh Жорамал сан
ko	Korean 허수
la	Latin Quantitas imaginaria
lt	Lithuanian Menamasis skaičius
nl	Dutch Imaginair getal
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Imaginært tal
no	Norwegian Imaginært tall
pl	Polish Liczby urojone
pt	Portuguese Número imaginário
ro	Romanian Număr imaginar
ru	Russian Чисто мнимое число
simple	Simple English Imaginary number
sr	Serbian Имагинарни број
sv	Swedish Imaginära tal
ta	Tamil கற்பனை எண்
th	Thai จำนวนจินตภาพ
tr	Turkish Sanal sayılar
uk	Ukrainian Уявне число
vi	Vietnamese Số ảo
zh	Chinese 虚数

Best Rank

English: #15939 08.2012

Global: #13099 08.2012

Best Rank

English: #431 11.2001

Global: #483 11.2001

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