alt Hacker NewsI think that calling numbers with a sqrt(-1) component "imaginary numbers" was a terrible decision. It makes a lot of people, especially students, think of them as pure-math nonsense without any practical applications. I think that "lateral numbers" would have been much better.
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immibis • yesterday at 10:19 AM
And irrational numbers and negative numbers should be called "extraordinary numbers" and "reflected numbers" of course, of course.
They are imaginary though. They aren't the only made up model/concept that has practical application, just take a look at positive charges or Newtonian physics