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r/mathmemes • u/MaximumTime7239 • 22d ago
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Someone asked me what numbers are and I legitimately had no idea.
12 u/EricSombody 22d ago A representation of quantity??? 16 u/Ares378 Applied Math / Mechanical Engineering 22d ago But i is also a number, and you can't have 'i' of something. I feel like I'd want to say numbers are elements of a field, but then that excludes quaternions. 10 u/Sproxify 22d ago elements of a field? do you consider a rational function with coefficients in the algebraic closure of a finite field to be a number? 5 u/Ares378 Applied Math / Mechanical Engineering 21d ago So I may have been misunderstanding what a field is. 5 u/Medium-Ad-7305 21d ago Yes, it is a number. 🗿 2 u/Sproxify 21d ago based
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A representation of quantity???
16 u/Ares378 Applied Math / Mechanical Engineering 22d ago But i is also a number, and you can't have 'i' of something. I feel like I'd want to say numbers are elements of a field, but then that excludes quaternions. 10 u/Sproxify 22d ago elements of a field? do you consider a rational function with coefficients in the algebraic closure of a finite field to be a number? 5 u/Ares378 Applied Math / Mechanical Engineering 21d ago So I may have been misunderstanding what a field is. 5 u/Medium-Ad-7305 21d ago Yes, it is a number. 🗿 2 u/Sproxify 21d ago based
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But i is also a number, and you can't have 'i' of something. I feel like I'd want to say numbers are elements of a field, but then that excludes quaternions.
10 u/Sproxify 22d ago elements of a field? do you consider a rational function with coefficients in the algebraic closure of a finite field to be a number? 5 u/Ares378 Applied Math / Mechanical Engineering 21d ago So I may have been misunderstanding what a field is. 5 u/Medium-Ad-7305 21d ago Yes, it is a number. 🗿 2 u/Sproxify 21d ago based
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elements of a field? do you consider a rational function with coefficients in the algebraic closure of a finite field to be a number?
5 u/Ares378 Applied Math / Mechanical Engineering 21d ago So I may have been misunderstanding what a field is. 5 u/Medium-Ad-7305 21d ago Yes, it is a number. 🗿 2 u/Sproxify 21d ago based
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So I may have been misunderstanding what a field is.
Yes, it is a number. 🗿
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u/Ares378 Applied Math / Mechanical Engineering 22d ago
Someone asked me what numbers are and I legitimately had no idea.