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by nuncanada 1332 days ago
Worse, if you take "Imaginary Numbers" to be only the necessary complement to make polynomials factoring complete... And "Imaginary Numbers" are definitely a necessity to describe reality... Meanwhile almost all "Real Numbers" are nothing but phantasmagorical numbers which we cannot name nor talk about them... It seems beyond the pale that we still are teaching these bizarre axioms instead of the Computable Reals which don't have all these phantom numbers...