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Reply #390 on: October 07, 2014, 09:13:16 pm
So you find truth in the most abstract subject known to man? Math is nothing but made up stuff, that we assign meaning to.

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Reply #391 on: October 08, 2014, 12:11:36 pm
Well I do know that 2+3 is not 4, to say it that way. :P I'm not a good philosopher

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Reply #392 on: October 08, 2014, 12:36:45 pm
Imaginary numbers, man ;)

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Reply #393 on: October 08, 2014, 01:10:52 pm
Like describing a new colour? Is that what imaginary numbers are? I have no idea really :P

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Reply #394 on: October 08, 2014, 03:17:30 pm
It's really difficult to explain... Imagine a number line from minus infinity to infinity:
All numbers are on that line. Now, extremely simplified, imaginary numbers are on a vertical axis. The basic imaginary number is i, which is the square root of -1 (which, in conventional maths, would not have a square root since no two numbers with the same value multiplied can give a negative number)

I hope it makes at least the slightest of sense :P

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Reply #395 on: October 08, 2014, 04:48:10 pm
So kinda like negative numbers? Or is it different?

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Reply #396 on: October 08, 2014, 07:46:10 pm
I see we have a mathmatician, though I do know about imaginary numbers I was actually being philosophic.

Numbers are merely a human intervention to explain things we otherwise cannot explain. On that basis, there is no certainty that anything we "know" is actually true. It is all build upon one invention.

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Reply #397 on: October 08, 2014, 10:34:51 pm
So that means that 1992 might not have been true? :lol:

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Reply #398 on: October 09, 2014, 10:19:48 am
No, 1992 consists of real numbers :P

Now, hold on to your thoughts, here's a video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxF5VQSA4Hw

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Reply #399 on: October 09, 2014, 12:42:30 pm
Again Matias, I am not talking about real, imaginary or any other kind of numbers specifically, I am talking about them all.
And no 1992 is true, it was a timeframe, and time is a physical thing.

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Reply #400 on: October 09, 2014, 07:08:32 pm
The number 1992 is considered real in maths terms ;)

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Reply #401 on: October 09, 2014, 10:44:43 pm
All numbers are real in math terms, even imaginary ;)
I am talking about philosophy :)

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Reply #402 on: October 09, 2014, 11:18:58 pm
1992

No they're not, hence the name imaginary ;)

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Reply #403 on: October 10, 2014, 12:10:55 pm
1993 (let's count here as well :D)

What is the purpose of imaginary numbers, other than confusing me? :)

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Reply #404 on: October 10, 2014, 02:40:56 pm
How about no, let's not count....  ^-^

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imaginary_number


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