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this meme goes from acute to obtuse real quick (midwest.social)
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[–] affiliate 1 points 11 months ago

as far as the rationals are concerned, this is the same as the number whose square is 2. (ℚ(i) and ℚ(√2) are isomorphic as fields.)

what we can gleam from this is that complete rationality can blur the line between what’s real and what’s imaginary