• howrar@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    Gotta ignore infinities too. The axioms they’re based on are highly controversial.

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      8 months ago

      And irrational numbers. I mean the numbers make sense, but it’s not like we can intuitively understand sqrt(-1).

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        8 months ago

        You’re thinking of imaginary numbers. Irrational numbers are real numbers that have an infinite number of decimal places and don’t repeat.