• sunbeam60@lemmy.one
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    2 months ago

    And irrational imaginary numbers. I mean the numbers make sense, but it’s not like we can intuitively understand sqrt(-1).

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      2 months ago

      You’re thinking of imaginary numbers. Irrational numbers are real numbers that have an infinite number of decimal places and don’t repeat.

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      2 months ago

      Your example is a complex number. An irrational number would be Pi or sqrt(5)