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[-] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 70 points 9 months ago

Last time I saw this kind of challenge it was on reddit and I just replied with ℝ, but people brought up that this leaves out complex numbers. I'll now contend, however, that any number not included in that isn't real.

[-] morrowind@lemmy.ml 30 points 9 months ago

You could use ℂ

[-] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 16 points 9 months ago

Quaternions hello?

[-] hernanca@beehaw.org 5 points 9 months ago

What about quaternions and octonions and ...

[-] yetAnotherUser@feddit.de 6 points 9 months ago

{x | x is a number}

[-] Toldry@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

That leaves out quaternions

[-] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 6 points 9 months ago

Just like birds, complex numbers aren't real!

Screw you sqrt(-1), you aren't even a real number, you poser!

[-] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Complex numbers? That sounds imaginary.

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