The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldM to memes@lemmy.world · 7 months agoThey keep digging that hole deeperlemmy.worldimagemessage-square88fedilinkarrow-up1844arrow-down136
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minus-squarePapergeist@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up17·7 months ago“Imaginary” is just a misnomer. Descartes basically ran a smear campaign against them.
minus-squareegeres@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·7 months 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-up4·7 months 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!