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[-] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 53 points 1 year ago

Complex numbers are as real as the Real numbers.

[-] kogasa@programming.dev 55 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] cpw@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 year ago

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?

[-] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

No that just makes you an American Mechanical Engineer.

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