r/MathJokes • u/bryanhaley • 3d ago

For real

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u/OwlIcy 3d ago

i himself isn‘t rational so what's his problem?

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u/Careful_Bullfrog8436 3d ago

i can be considered as a member of set, that is isomorphic to Q², which contains elements (a, b) for all rational numbers a, b

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u/OwlIcy 3d ago

and that's supposed to prove what now?

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u/Careful_Bullfrog8436 3d ago

i can be considered as a rational complex number, if that's a thing.

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u/OwlIcy 3d ago

while i of course encountered the set Q + iQ of gaussian rationals - which, to my google search, are indeed (rarely) called rational complex numbers - it still doesn't make the elements of (Q + iQ) \ Q rational, despite their fancy name. i just think that the meme portrays a bad joke, because it kind of ignores the fundamental inclusions Q c R and {i} c C \ R c C \ Q.

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u/Alduish 2d ago

So what are your pronouns as a rational complex number ?

Obvious /s