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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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Koshkin
2305 days ago
In fact, it's an interesting (and non-trivial) philosophical topic, to consider all different ways in which things do not exist.
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enriquto
2305 days ago
Complex numbers exist just as much as the Euclidean plane. Furthermore, they are also scalings and rotations of said plane.
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carapace
2305 days ago
The Euclidean plane also doesn't exist.
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Koshkin
2305 days ago
It does not hurt to assume that it does.
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