The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldM to memes@lemmy.world · 26 days agoThey keep digging that hole deeperlemmy.worldimagemessage-square90fedilinkarrow-up1804arrow-down136
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minus-squarePapergeist@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up16·25 days ago“Imaginary” is just a misnomer. Descartes basically ran a smear campaign against them.
minus-squareegeres@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·25 days agoThat’s actually a good point I had never considered! In a way you could consider that “negative numbers are imaginary as well”
minus-squarePapergeist@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·25 days agoAnd that’s never something I considered. You can’t see a negative amount of apples. Must be imaginary!
“Imaginary” is just a misnomer. Descartes basically ran a smear campaign against them.
That’s actually a good point I had never considered! In a way you could consider that “negative numbers are imaginary as well”
And that’s never something I considered. You can’t see a negative amount of apples. Must be imaginary!