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[–] Papergeist@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Imaginary" is just a misnomer. Descartes basically ran a smear campaign against them.

[–] egeres@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's actually a good point I had never considered! In a way you could consider that "negative numbers are imaginary as well"

[–] Papergeist@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

And that's never something I considered. You can't see a negative amount of apples. Must be imaginary!