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It'll be ok. Nobody's going to judge you. (media.piefed.world)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
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[–] 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

There's a convincing argument all numbers are imaginary. I've never seen a million of something in one place. Let alone a billion, or a trillion. Root 2? Get outta here. e, pi. Basically any useful number already has the property that i has (suspending disbelief until we can get rid of it again somewhere later down the line)

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    Pi can be seen in real life (obviously not with full precision, but close enough). Simply make a 1 cm rod on a lathe and measure its circumference, and you'll see it's ~3.141 cm

    The same goes for root 2. Simply measure the diagonal of a 1 cm square

    Not sure where you'd see e in real life, though (excluding as the base of an exponential, because any exponential can be trivially rewritten with any base)

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