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[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Imaginary numbers are as real as negative numbers.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Are they as real as real numbers though?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

Damn, this is more complex than I thought.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

Unless you're referring to the set of Real Numbers, in which case they're not real.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Why stop there? They're just as real as any number.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Exactly!
But why stop there? They're just as unreal as any number.

Some might say they are even about the same amount of number as any number.