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minus-squarepr06lefs@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up175·edit-21 year agoWhat about plain old x = -10? -10 ^ 2 = 100 -10 ^ 3 = -1000 -10 ^ 5 = -100000
minus-squareenkers@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up68·1 year agoThat’s what he wrote, I imagine.
minus-squareSiethron@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up39·1 year agoIt is, but with imaginary numbets
minus-squarethedudeabides@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27·1 year agoNothing gets past you eh?
minus-squarepr06lefs@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up36·1 year agopeople being pedantic showoffs doesn’t really register as humor for me, TBH
minus-squarethedudeabides@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·1 year agoThat’s true, the OOP is being quite snarky with their comment on a post where someone’s had a genuine basic doubt
minus-squareDeconceptualist@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 year agoThat was my immediate thought too.
What about plain old
x = -10?-10 ^ 2 = 100
-10 ^ 3 = -1000
-10 ^ 5 = -100000
Isn’t that the joke?
That’s what he wrote, I imagine.
It is, but with imaginary numbets
numbet
numberwang
i² = -1 so…
Nothing gets past you eh?
people being pedantic showoffs doesn’t really register as humor for me, TBH
That’s true, the OOP is being quite snarky with their comment on a post where someone’s had a genuine basic doubt
10 * i^2 is -10.
That was my immediate thought too.
Boooooring