Anyone here ever got bugged with i?

  • Context: Undergrad 
  • Thread starter Thread starter fbs7
  • Start date Start date
Join the discussion
Ask a follow-up here, or get your own question answered by working scientists, mathematicians and engineers — people, not an autocomplete.
Real named experts · corrections over time · the nuance an AI answer skips
61 replies · 9K views
To this I have to add, not meaning to be facetious, negative chairs and negative money also don't exist but make for very useful tools for accounting. Negative numbers, of course, were once the imaginary numbers of now.
 
Physics news on Phys.org
hddd123456789 said:
To this I have to add, not meaning to be facetious, negative chairs and negative money also don't exist but make for very useful tools for accounting. Negative numbers, of course, were once the imaginary numbers of now.


Haha, true, and zero didn't exist until it was created too.

But negatives are easier to instinctively associate... like move 10m North then 10m South, and you're back to where you were.

Anyway, nevermind "i"... this whole tread got me deeply troubled with my beloved reals... ay-ay-ay, that's a much bigger problem.. :cry: