• bionicjoey
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    2 months ago

    Immediately the new branch gets saturated with numbers that weren’t on the number line before. This is induced demand. The new branch made congestion even worse

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        2 months ago

        Ah you’re correct. It appears from the alt-text that is a joke about subways

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      2 months ago

      I would say the imaginary numbers line goes somewhere else, is not for reducing congestion, imho

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        2 months ago

        The real numbers are the main bypass, the imaginaries are the orbitals which interchange with the positive and negative reals