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[–] 14 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

What do you mean you can not divide a meter without estimations or irrational numbers? Do you mean fractions or decimal? 1m/3=3.33… dm ( repeating, which means it is a rational fraction)

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  • [–] 14 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

    Anyone who thinks you can divide one number by another and get an irrational number... doesn't know what irrational means.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    Irrational numbers are ones with the square root of negative 1 as a factor, right?

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  • [–] 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    irrational numbers are numbers which are not a ratio of integers

    complex numbers, often called "imaginary" numbers, are ones with components of unit i =√-1

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

    complex numbers, often called "imaginary" numbers,

    Aside: mostly, but complex numbers are an addition of both a real number and an imaginary number: a + bi. It just happens that a can be 0, making it a strictly irrational number when b ≠ 0.

    Thus, the imaginary numbers are a strict subset of the complex numbers.

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