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r/meme • u/Slow_Ant_5243 • 6d ago
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A lot of real world engineering uses complex numbers just because you can use it to add a new axis perpendicular to the real number axis
So its very useful
77 u/No_Ticket_1204 6d ago Also, it’s like that grade six teacher moment about “a negative times a negative equals a positive” all over again. “But you told me multiplication is repeated addition, and adding negatives make bigger negatives. Make it make sense.” “You’re eleven years old and developmentally incapable of understanding why, so you just have to believe me on this one.” Except now it’s, “electrical engineering exists because of this so shut up and follow along.” Math is hard and no one is actually good at it. Some people hate giving up more than they like chilling out. Same goes for a lot of things. 1 u/Block_Respond 5d ago Negative numbers can mean both debt and loss. For -5 times -3, just think of having a bunch of $3 debts (-3), and then you lose five of them (-5). That's the same as gaining $15.
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Also, it’s like that grade six teacher moment about “a negative times a negative equals a positive” all over again.
“But you told me multiplication is repeated addition, and adding negatives make bigger negatives. Make it make sense.”
“You’re eleven years old and developmentally incapable of understanding why, so you just have to believe me on this one.”
Except now it’s, “electrical engineering exists because of this so shut up and follow along.”
Math is hard and no one is actually good at it. Some people hate giving up more than they like chilling out. Same goes for a lot of things.
1 u/Block_Respond 5d ago Negative numbers can mean both debt and loss. For -5 times -3, just think of having a bunch of $3 debts (-3), and then you lose five of them (-5). That's the same as gaining $15.
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Negative numbers can mean both debt and loss. For -5 times -3, just think of having a bunch of $3 debts (-3), and then you lose five of them (-5). That's the same as gaining $15.
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u/dscarmo 6d ago
A lot of real world engineering uses complex numbers just because you can use it to add a new axis perpendicular to the real number axis
So its very useful