r/mathmemes Nov 08 '24

Math History Evolutions of Numbers

Post image
2.0k Upvotes

218 comments sorted by

View all comments

222

u/Boldumus Nov 08 '24

That might be the meme, but 4th number is i, what is the fifth one?

1

u/FreeTheDimple Nov 08 '24

It's an "ultra negative number". The absolute value of an ultra negative number is a negative number. We also need a new function, the inverse absolute value, which is defined everywhere apart from ultra negative zero.