Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Moebius Newsgroups: sci.math Subject: Re: Hello! Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2025 17:04:38 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 35 Message-ID: References: <6FFviQWSDMpB-lC7jH8drZAhwsk@jntp> Reply-To: invalid@example.invalid MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2025 17:04:38 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="da9c4019aaa1365897d22a299780b2ea"; logging-data="2460671"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX186mPJSIFoPtBe32+z4WIER" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:S5PgqLigNtiJtu3cGUBmRMsfJ4g= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: de-DE Bytes: 2144 Am 19.01.2025 um 16:50 schrieb Moebius: > Am 19.01.2025 um 16:39 schrieb Moebius: >> Am 19.01.2025 um 16:30 schrieb Richard Hachel: >>> Le 19/01/2025 à 15:28, Moebius a écrit : >>>> Am 19.01.2025 um 12:37 schrieb Richard Hachel: >>> >>>> Complex numbers can be defined as (ordered) pairs of real numbers. >>>> >>>> Then >>>>          i := (0, 1) . >>>> >>>> Hence i =/= 1 and i =/= -1. >>> >>> No. >> >> Yes. > > Hint: Then (in this context) i * i = (0, 1) * (0, 1) = (-1, 0), the > latter is "identified" with -1, hence we may write: > >                  i^2 = -1 . > > That's exactly what we want. Hint: No "extremely fine mathematical error" at all. On the other hand, this one is an "extremely severe mathematical error": >>> i = 1 = -1 >> >> Hear, hear, hence 1 = -1 now? >> >> Fuck off, idiot! >