• livingheart@sh.itjust.works
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    9 days ago

    Anyone who thinks you can divide one number by another and get an irrational number… doesn’t know what irrational means.

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      9 days ago

      Irrational numbers are ones with the square root of negative 1 as a factor, right?

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        irrational numbers are numbers which are not a ratio of integers

        complex numbers, often called “imaginary” numbers, are ones with components of unit i =√-1

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          complex numbers, often called “imaginary” numbers,

          Aside: mostly, but complex numbers are an addition of both a real number and an imaginary number: a + bi. It just happens that a can be 0, making it a strictly irrational number when b ≠ 0.

          Thus, the imaginary numbers are a strict subset of the complex numbers.