/sci/ - Science & Math

>>8086778
We should really be calling every number "imaginary".

>>8086778
a minor annoyance. pull your head out of your ass

>>8086778
>Hmmm these numbers are not "real"
>Whatever will I call them

Shouldn't you be mad that we call the ordered field with the least upper bound property "real numbers" instead?

Or are you just a whining engineer....?

>>8086778
Nice meme from 2008 brah.

>>>/MySpace/

>>8086778
>real numbers
>"real"

Well shit I learned that a complex number has a real component, and an imaginary component. What, did they teach me wrong or is OP talking out his ass again?

>>8086831
i think the point is that a complex number has a real and imaginary component, whereas an imaginary number does not.

>>8086854
OOOOOOO.

Clever girl.

>>8086854
Imaginary numbers have a real part that is equal to 0

>>8086863
no they don't. complex numbers can have a real part equal to 0 and be shortened to an imaginary number. doesn't work the other way around though.
>An imaginary number is a complex number that can be written as a real number multiplied by the imaginary unit i
historically, "imaginary number" was occasionally used interchangeably with "complex number" but nowadays an imaginary number is almost exclusively used to refer to a purely imaginary complex number.

>>8086778
>Calling real numbers "Irrational"
>Calling algebraic numbers "Surds"
>Calling negative number "False, fictitious, absurd"
>Zero

>>8086884
How's that undergrad degree coming

>>8086790
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>>8086827
I've never watched this guy's videos. Does he talk about things like [math]\sqrt{2}[/math]. How does he do geometry/talk about things like the circumference of a circle to length of a diagonal of a square?

>>8086984
His philosophy as far as I could grasp was "of course we have to use this math in daily life, but keep in the back of your mind that it is nonsense according to me and pray to your deity that you will discover an alternative even though it is likely that none exists"

>>8086778

Because i is literally imaginary.

>>8086778
>> Thinking names matter

>>8086979
Take your pedophile cartoons back to >>>/a/.