👉 The term "non-conjugate" refers to something that is not a conjugate. In mathematics, a conjugate of a number $a$ is another number $b$, such that $ab = a^2$. This means that if you multiply any real number by itself (i.e., raise it to the power of 2), the result is the original number. For example, consider the numbers $3$ and $-3$. Multiplying them both by themselves gives: $$
