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[–] baggins@lemmy.ca 12 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Imaginary numbers are math cope for when you're too cool to just use two numbers.

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago (5 children)

I never got why they didn't just introduce tuples in maths

[–] MacNCheezus 11 points 5 months ago

They did, linear algebra and vector calculus are a thing, but complex numbers have certain properties that you don’t get with vectors and that are quite useful and worth studying.

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