niktemadur@lemmy.world to Ask Science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoAs imaginary numbers (square root is negative) are useful, is there any mathematical use for an imaginary number that, when multiplied by zero, gives a non-zero result?message-squaremessage-square24fedilinkarrow-up163arrow-down12
arrow-up161arrow-down1message-squareAs imaginary numbers (square root is negative) are useful, is there any mathematical use for an imaginary number that, when multiplied by zero, gives a non-zero result?niktemadur@lemmy.world to Ask Science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square24fedilink
minus-squareZachariah@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down1·3 days agoImagine that you have zero cookies and you split them evenly among zero friends. How many cookies does each person get? See? It doesn’t make sense. And Cookie Monster is sad that there are no cookies, and you are sad that you have no friends.
Imagine that you have zero cookies and you split them evenly among zero friends. How many cookies does each person get? See? It doesn’t make sense. And Cookie Monster is sad that there are no cookies, and you are sad that you have no friends.
I feel attacked.