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[–] 101 points 2 years ago (2 children)

When all you have is an imaginary hammer, everything looks like a rotation around the imaginary unit circle.

Explanation of mathsx = -10, i = √-1 so i² = -1 and 10i²=-10

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Found the math but no explanation.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The squareroot of 100 is ±10.

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    The square root is always positive, but you can plug it into the quadratic formula to get the two possible values.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    IIRC, your spoilery “so” is the other way round. The right side is the definition, and the left-hand side a layman’s shorthand, as the root operator isn’t defined on negative numbers.

    I might very well be wrong. My being a mathematician has been over for a while now, my being a pedantic PITA not though.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    I don't know enough to know how correct your pedantry is (technically or not), but to explain the meme it made sense to go through the symbols in the order you see them. I never got any points from the proof questions in exams anyway.

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