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by nathias 2305 days ago
complex/negative numbers don't actually exist in contrast to natural numbers that don't actually exist in a different way
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In fact, it's an interesting (and non-trivial) philosophical topic, to consider all different ways in which things do not exist.
Complex numbers exist just as much as the Euclidean plane. Furthermore, they are also scalings and rotations of said plane.
The Euclidean plane also doesn't exist.
It does not hurt to assume that it does.