He has a bit of a grammar error though, it should read "i is the square root of a negative number"

  • Rem [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    "i is not a number. It is impossible to have i apples, or for an event to last i minutes. It's sick, just sick how our culture has gotten to the point of requiring that people acknowledge delusions like this as though they were perfectly normal. Please someone count to i for me. Oh right, you can't, but liberals insist that after six thousand years of doing math they've suddenly discovered a secret new number. It's, and I don't say this lightly, pure delusion."

      • Rem [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        I was pissed when I found out about them too. Calling them "imaginary numbers" didn't help I think. You lose people with snappy slogans like imaginary.

        • The_word_of_dog [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          Lol I legitimately got laughed at by my class for asking what a "real" number was because of this.

          I was just a philosophical layer ahead of them is all. I'm totally not a dumbass

          • Rem [she/her]
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            4 years ago

            I had a moment like that when I thought I was being smart but was actually being an idiot. In like first grade reading there was a question about why a joke in the book was funny, and instead of explaining the joke I deadass tried to explain the concept of humor because I couldn't process what they were actually asking.