Imaginary numbers exist only because mathematicians discovered everything about real numbers and got bored.

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6 years ago

It's the nasty plumbing behind the clean walls of reality.

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6 years ago

I prefer lunes and partial fractions myself

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6 years ago

My favorite imaginary number. Threve.

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6 years ago

What’s an imaginary number?

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6 years ago

The square root of -1

Comes up a lot in electrical engineering and electronics theory, among other things.

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