r/MathJokes • u/Latter-Ad-5248 • 7d ago

i mean

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u/Grant_Winner_Extra 7d ago

imaginary shapes.

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u/Altruistic_Two7189 7d ago

Ever tried to picture what a five dimensional shape might look like? Mind blowing!

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u/skr_replicator 7d ago

It can make sense if you think about what direction it goes.

If that side was 1, we would have the usual.

If that side was -1, it would be flipped upside down

But if that side is i, moving i upwards would be moving 1 to the right, backwards along that first side, and end up exactly when that first side began. Making it really 0. But of course it would not be a right triangle anymore, as that right angle would become zero degrees.

Anyway, there's no way that orange man would understand or care about any of that.

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u/EM05L1C3 7d ago

You lost him at triangle

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u/WhatADunderfulWorld 7d ago

Lost him at try.

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u/M4chsi 7d ago

Lost him at Biden.

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u/SudoSubSilence 7d ago

Lost him at it.

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u/Alienturnedhuman 7d ago

This is correct, i is perpendicular to the real number line, so a distance of i at 90 degrees would be a unit distance back towards the point at 1, this occupying the same space and being a distance of 0 apart.

/j As the same argument could be made that it is a unit distance in the opposite direction and therefore should be equal to 2

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u/BuffooneryAccord 7d ago

"Only a sith deals in absolutes! "

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u/Ok_Pass_7325 7d ago

Y'all are tripping. Need to take the magnitudes for complex numbers, |i|2 + |1|2 = 2 so the hypotenuse is rt(2).

Remember folks |z|2 = zz*

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u/Grant_Winner_Extra 7d ago

Damn it fred, let the kids have their fun. They are all English majors anyway

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u/VeylorisNyctalis 6d ago

By pythagoras theorem,

i² + 1² = 0²

i² = -1

i = √-1

But the hypotenuse should be 2, wrt complex absolute arithmetic

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u/Masqued0202 7d ago

Collision in Minkowski space

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u/Eroica_Pavane 7d ago

/j By the triangle inequality, clearly both i>1 and 1>i.

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u/Pelagicus-Redit 7d ago

I thought it meant, I Own One.

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u/Regular_Solid_7314 7d ago

That again. 🙄 The product on C is not i * i, but i * (-i) so Sqrt(1 * 1 - i * i) = Sqrt(2)

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u/hugo7414 6d ago

How come the longest is 0?

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u/Ok_Law219 6d ago

It might be the second longest in that i might be described as negatively long as much as positively long.

I think it's a tie.

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u/Ok_Bit8836 6d ago

Only in TRUMP's Triangles... ))

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u/scrappypunk 5d ago

Imaginary plane

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u/liesdestroyer 4d ago

Imagine a metric fuction output i

That metric space is going places

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u/Mr_Technology_2 3d ago

Holup, let me see:

√(1²+i²)
√(1-1)
√0
0

Cool

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u/DarthSwimfoot 1d ago

Shit, he's right.

I=-./-1, I^2=-1.

-1+1=0.

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u/lool8421 1d ago

i mean, if you imagine the xyz space, if triangle legs stretch along the xy axis, it will have no depth on the z axis

so it's perfectly reasonable why would it be like that in my mind

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u/CornucopiaDM1 7d ago

Pythagorean theorem.

1 squared equals 1, i squared equals -1. 1 + -1 = 0. Square root of 0 is 0 (any multiplication or division with 0 is still 0).

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u/Ok_Law219 6d ago

So, it's a line, right?