For that matter, the real numbers are fake as fuck. "Ah yes, let's just throw in uncountably many non-computable numbers." They have played us for absolute fools.
The set of all rational numbers has zero size in the real numbers. And yet, they're fucking dense, meaning you can find a rational arbitrarily close to any real number. I mean, what the fuck?
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driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br · 49 pts · 2y
Complex numbers are as real as the Real numbers.
kogasa@programming.dev · 49 pts · 2y
For that matter, the real numbers are fake as fuck. "Ah yes, let's just throw in uncountably many non-computable numbers." They have played us for absolute fools.
lugal@lemmy.ml · 14 pts · 2y
Big math is laughing at us right now
cpw@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 2y
The set of all rational numbers has zero size in the real numbers. And yet, they're fucking dense, meaning you can find a rational arbitrarily close to any real number. I mean, what the fuck?
starman2112@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 2y
That's it, I'm Amish now. I use inches and fractions of inches, and that's as far as my numbers need to take me
ThePyroPython@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
No that just makes you an American Mechanical Engineer.
Gutek8134@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
Their subset, irrational numbers, is somehow worse
funnystuff97@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 2y
"there are as many even/odd/prime/composite numbers as there are numbers"
g(63)? TREE(3)? BB(10^100)? Rayo's Number? Fuck outta here with that fake bullshit
starman2112@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2y
Yeah TREE(3) is so big, how can you possibly know that there are that many evens??
ziggurism@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 2y
complex numbers are just numbers in a plane instead of a line. saying you don't believe in i is like saying you don't believe in "up"
nodsocket@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 2y
EmoBean@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 2y
I'm irrational because I'm a πces.
fossilesque@mander.xyz · 4 pts · 2y
fastandcurious@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
I remember a very beautiful line my teacher told me
Its translated so it might not be as good
‘It’s not necessary for everything to have a meaning, but everything does bring meaning if you know how to use it’
fosho@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 2y
the punchline comes before the joke.
what's the worst part about time travel jokes?