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This feels wrong. I love it. (sopuli.xyz)

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Imaginary numbers always feel wrong

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

If you are comfortable with negative numbers, then you are already comfortable with the idea that a number can be tagged with an extra bit of information that represents a rotation. Complex numbers just generalize the choices available to you from 0 degrees and 180 degrees to arbitrary angles.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago

After delving into quaternions, complex numbers feel simple and intuitive.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

after you spend enough time with complex numbers, the real numbers start to feel wrong

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Can we all at least agree that counting numbers are a joke? Sometimes they start at zero … sometimes they start at one …

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

ISO 80000-2 defines 0 as a natural number. qed.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I never really appreciated them until watching a bunch of 3blue1brown videos. I really wish those had been available when I was still in HS.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

After watching a lot of Numberphile and 3B1B videos I said to myself, you know what, I'm going back to college to get a maths degree. I switched at last moment to actuarial sciences when applying, because it's looked like a good professional move and was the best decision on my life.