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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Complex numbers are as real as the Real numbers.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago (4 children)

For that matter, the real numbers are fake as fuck. "Ah yes, let's just throw in uncountably many non-computable numbers." They have played us for absolute fools.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Big math is laughing at us right now

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The set of all rational numbers has zero size in the real numbers. And yet, they're fucking dense, meaning you can find a rational arbitrarily close to any real number. I mean, what the fuck?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That's it, I'm Amish now. I use inches and fractions of inches, and that's as far as my numbers need to take me

[–] ThePyroPython 3 points 1 year ago

No that just makes you an American Mechanical Engineer.

[–] Gutek8134 4 points 1 year ago

Their subset, irrational numbers, is somehow worse

[–] funnystuff97 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"there are as many even/odd/prime/composite numbers as there are numbers"

g(63)? TREE(3)? BB(10^100)? Rayo's Number? Fuck outta here with that fake bullshit

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah TREE(3) is so big, how can you possibly know that there are that many evens??

[–] ziggurism 0 points 1 year ago

complex numbers are just numbers in a plane instead of a line. saying you don't believe in i is like saying you don't believe in "up"

[–] EmoBean 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm irrational because I'm a πces.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Can I pi you a drink?

[–] fastandcurious 4 points 1 year ago

I remember a very beautiful line my teacher told me

Its translated so it might not be as good

‘It’s not necessary for everything to have a meaning, but everything does bring meaning if you know how to use it’

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

the punchline comes before the joke.

what's the worst part about time travel jokes?