macedonianmoper

macedonianmoper t1_j6b9mpy wrote

Ah I see, then it's totally understandable, unlike fractions and negatives they don't really serve a purpose for day to day.

Education changes from place to place, I see a lot of people apparently had calculus in highschool while I only started it in college (this was only a few years ago), I did however learn about imaginary numbers in high school

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macedonianmoper t1_j6b7etg wrote

He understood, the thing is that the square root of a negative number is only impossible if you exclude "imaginary" numbers as a solution.

Very much like saying 3-6 is impossible if you don't think negative numbers are possible.

Just like banks might need negative numbers to say you're in debt, imaginary numbers are useful for other things, engineers use it to describe electricity in AC circuits for example

So you can say that imaginary numbers aren't possible, but that excludes real solutions that help you solve problems, very much like excluding fractional numbers would stop you from sharing an apple with a friend since you can either have an entire apple or none at all

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macedonianmoper t1_j29qsl7 wrote

Keep in mind that if you have one foot out the blankets are most likely not perfectly closed so air from outside can come in so it's not just the cooler blood circulating in your veins, it's also that the moment you put your foot outside the entire air below the blankets also cooled

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