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Just remember that Rene Descartes coined the term Imaginary Numbers, and he also believed in ghosts. Stop calling them imaginary.
by deviantbit 3y ago
Just remember that Rene Descartes coined the term Imaginary Numbers, and he also believed in ghosts.
Stop calling them imaginary.
- qwertox 3y agoThey are like negative numbers. You can have 1 apple, but you can not have -1 apples. You can owe +1 apple, and say that you therefore have -1 apples. So -1 does exist as a number, but it is a representation of something that is happening with a positive number. And the "i" is similar to this. Maybe calling it "perpendicular" would have been better suited, because imaginary is really confusing.