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fossilesque@mander.xyzM to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 2 years ago

🦃 happy turkey day 🦃

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🦃 happy turkey day 🦃

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyzOPM
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    Answer:

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    i over eight.

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      Thanks for making sure to keep the dumbos included but still making us work just a little to be included.

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        I still don’t get it. Any help?

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          The square root of negative 1 is “i”. The “i” referrs to an imaginary number. When you square a number (e.g. 2^2 ) the result will always be positive. This is because you are multiplying the number with itself, and a negative number multiplied by another negative number will be positive. So -2 * -2 = 4, -3 * -3 = 9, and so on.

          A square root is the inverse of this. It attempts to find what the original number was that was squared, so sqrt(4) = 2, sqrt(9) = 3, and so on. However, what do you do if you have sqrt(-4)? There’s no way for a square to result in a negative number, so the result must be imaginary. So sqrt(-4) = 2i, sqrt(-9) = 3i, and so on. As such, sqrt(-1) = i.

          For the next part, when you divide one number by another, it is sometimes referred to as [first number] over [second number].

          Finally, 8, well, sounds like “ate”.

          So sqrt(-1)/8 = i/8 = i over eight= I over ate.

          (Sorry if this came off as condescending near the end, I’m trying to be thorough in case you aren’t a native English speaker)

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            It seems I was only having trouble with the connecting “eight” to “ate”, but damn, this is a solid explanation of the other parts too!

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            Very thorough. I’ll just add stylization: √−̅1̅ = 𝑖

            Edit: minus

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              Forgot the minus

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            Thank you! I only got as far as i divided by 8… But now I kinda get it (-: |>

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          Square root of -1 is called i because it’s an imaginary number

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            Square root of -1 is called i because it’s an imaginary number butl gets used often

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            Thanks for giving the last piece of the answer so everyone can be included, and those who didn’t know can learn.

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              Just wish I could remember the spoiler formatting haha

        • SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz
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          Title

          I over-ate.

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      Finally figured out after repeating it 2-3 times in my mind. Before that I was like what has i by 8 got to do with thanksgiving.

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    j eighth? J over 8? It took me an embarrassingly long time to remember to use i :(

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      Spot the electrical engineer.

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    I’m pretty sure everyone Americans says this after thanksgiving

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      Americans say this after every giant fucking portion.

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        Probably yes.

        But I think he wanted to highlight that we do no have such feast here in Europe.

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          he

          She

          Europe

          Australia

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            My apologies dear mate.

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          Listen, I’m an American in the UK and they do Thanksgiving Dinner every Sunday here. It’s kind of great.

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        You see those portions only look huge from far away. For Americans it’s just right (their ideal body is Trump)

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      Only those who didn’t sleep during math.

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    0.125i ?!?

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      125iE-3

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        that’s a pretty unconventional place to put the i no?

        it would be either i125e-3 or 125e-3*i

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    Took me a sec.

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    (rd(r^2)

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    Imaginary? But it feels so real!

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