Ad4mWayn3@sh.itjust.works to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 1 day agoWhat is your favorite math constant that is NOT a real number?message-squaremessage-square42linkfedilinkarrow-up155arrow-down13
arrow-up152arrow-down1message-squareWhat is your favorite math constant that is NOT a real number?Ad4mWayn3@sh.itjust.works to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 1 day agomessage-square42linkfedilink
minus-squareOnno (VK6FLAB)linkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down5·1 day agoZero It’s the absence of a number and has all manner of interesting edge cases associated with it.
minus-squarenovember@lemmy.vglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·15 hours agoZero is a real number, but interestingly, it’s also a pure imaginary number. It’s the only number that’s both things at once.
minus-squareAd4mWayn3@sh.itjust.worksOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·15 hours agoIt gets deeper. It’s also the same as the 0-k-vector, the 0-k-blade, the 0-multivector, the only number that is its own square besides 1, etc…
minus-squarenovember@lemmy.vglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·12 hours agoThere are other idempotent numbers in the split-complex and q-adic (for non-prime q) numbers.
minus-squareAd4mWayn3@sh.itjust.worksOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down1·1 day agoZero is the absence of a quantity, but it is still a number.
Zero
It’s the absence of a number and has all manner of interesting edge cases associated with it.
Zero is a real number, but interestingly, it’s also a pure imaginary number. It’s the only number that’s both things at once.
As I said … lots of edge cases :)
It gets deeper. It’s also the same as the 0-k-vector, the 0-k-blade, the 0-multivector, the only number that is its own square besides 1, etc…
There are other idempotent numbers in the split-complex and q-adic (for non-prime q) numbers.
Zero is the absence of a quantity, but it is still a number.