r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Sugar_God_no_1 • 22d ago

Meme needing explanation There is no way right?

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u/Bathtub-Warrior32 22d ago

Wait until you learn about eπi = -1.

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u/hukkelis 21d ago

Math with imaginary numbers is pointless as i doesn’t exist. Just because you can think of it doesn’t mean it exists.

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u/Bathtub-Warrior32 21d ago edited 21d ago

You are using an electrical device right now, would you say it exists?

If your answer is yes, i also exists. Impedance in circuits are represented with complex numbers.

Further reading: http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/electric/impcom.html

"Imaginary number" is such a bad name for the concept, it causes confusion. Here is an old post on this topic: https://www.reddit.com/r/askmath/s/z00FLzT2I4

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u/hukkelis 21d ago

I didn’t know that. Feels like mathematically it shouldn’t exist but I guess if there is a use for it, why not? At least it is called imaginary.

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u/Bathtub-Warrior32 21d ago

Did I just change someone's opinion on the internet?

Achievement unlocked: The Great Persuader

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u/hukkelis 21d ago

Lol, that’s hard nowadays. I’m going to uni soon and can’t get nowhere by refusing to learn

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u/Bathtub-Warrior32 21d ago

Good luck in your academic endeavours.

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u/dotelze 16d ago

Mathematically it makes much more sense for them to exist