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Posted on 12/21/2021 8:16:07 PM PST by algore
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'The Universe is not a litterbox for Imaginary Cats' - Algore
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posted on
12/21/2021 8:16:07 PM PST
by
algore
To: algore
We have an imaginary President, why not imaginary numbers.
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posted on
12/21/2021 8:20:03 PM PST
by
reg45
(Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
To: algore
Sounds like string hypothesis again. “We need imaginary numbers to describe our undetectable world”.
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posted on
12/21/2021 8:21:06 PM PST
by
DesertRhino
(Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up....)
To: reg45; Kevmo
Imaginary numbers are quite real, I first learned about them in jr high algebra
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posted on
12/21/2021 8:24:42 PM PST
by
algore
To: algore
So reality is imaginary.
As we always subjected, we all all actors on the stage …of someone’s dream.
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posted on
12/21/2021 8:26:35 PM PST
by
faithhopecharity
(“Politicians are not born. They’re excreted.” Marcus Tillius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
To: algore
Uh-huh.
EE 310 always gave me the willies.
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posted on
12/21/2021 8:31:00 PM PST
by
sauropod
(Meanie Butt Daddy - No you can't)
To: algore
So the cat in the box is dead?
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posted on
12/21/2021 8:35:24 PM PST
by
Deaf Smith
(When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
To: algore
Imaginary numbers are necessary to accurately describe reality
We'll need imaginary numbers to describe funding for Build Back Broke and to calculate Omnicron deaths.
To: algore
Electrical engineers use imaginary numbers in circuit descriptions. They use the symbol “j” instead of “i”, which is the choice of mathematicians. I believe the imaginary numbers come about from Fourier Transforms describing response from sinusoidal inputs.
To: algore
They are quite prevalent in electrodynamic theories and practice.
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posted on
12/21/2021 8:51:16 PM PST
by
Kevmo
(I’m immune from Covid since I don’t watch TV.🤗)
To: algore
[[Imaginary numbers are necessary to accurately describe reality, ]]
Yep- like the imaginary numbers of people who have died WITH covid according to the scammers pushing ht covid lie-
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posted on
12/21/2021 8:54:30 PM PST
by
Bob434
To: algore
Did you learn that they’re racist?
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posted on
12/21/2021 8:55:00 PM PST
by
gundog
( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
To: algore
Here’s what I wonder:
Since imaginary numbers are mathematically rigorous and the universe operates as if they do exist, what would be the philosophical corollary? Sumthin like operating as if Occham’s Razor is invalid if two opposing Razor elements are operating in tandem?
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posted on
12/21/2021 9:08:53 PM PST
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Kevmo
(I’m immune from Covid since I don’t watch TV.🤗)
To: algore
Oh, I know about imaginary numbers. I just haven’t needed to use them very much.
On the other hand, President 46i …
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posted on
12/21/2021 9:17:38 PM PST
by
reg45
(Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
A general solution to the cubic equation was long considered impossible, until we gave up the requirement that math reflect reality... Thanks to Dr Amir Alexander, Dr Alexander Kontorovich, Dr Chris Ferrie, and Dr Adam Becker for the helpful advice and feedback on the earlier versions of the script.How Imaginary Numbers Were Invented | November 1, 2021 | Veritasium
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posted on
12/21/2021 9:26:18 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: 6SJ7; AdmSmith; AFPhys; Arkinsaw; allmost; aristotleman; autumnraine; bajabaja; ...
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posted on
12/21/2021 9:27:32 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: reg45
Ha.....I’d say he’s not imaginary but rather his votes/voters were. He does, however, imagine himself as a valid President, though... :0)
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posted on
12/21/2021 9:58:08 PM PST
by
Gaffer
To: algore
This is REALLY the lonliest number.
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posted on
12/21/2021 10:04:38 PM PST
by
bigbob
To: algore
I've had a long fascination with imaginary numbers. They make mathematics complete. You don't need to invent some other number to get the square root of i or even i^i ( which has an infinate number of irrational totally real numbers !) .
If you have total internal reflection from a beam of light inside a glass block , if you bring another glass block next to the first the imaginary equation actually predicts the weird way light crosses the gap as you bring the glass blocks closer to each other.
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posted on
12/21/2021 10:36:39 PM PST
by
Nateman
(Racism is Leftist Dog Whistle for 'Resistance to Communism'.)
To: algore
"Imaginary numbers"
Brought to you by dominion.
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posted on
12/21/2021 10:41:02 PM PST
by
clearcarbon
(Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
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