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[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (4 children)

You could use ℂ

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Quaternions hello?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What about quaternions and octonions and ...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

{x | x is a number}

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That leaves out quaternions

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

This image goes so hard

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Just like birds, complex numbers aren't real!

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Complex numbers? That sounds imaginary.