Irrational peopleFreddie Woo tells us "I'm having to drive 500 miles to pick up my son from the ex's house because she won't let him take the train in case he gets off at the wrong station. He's 19 years old and has A-Levels and everything." - Tell us about illogical and irrational people who get on your nerves.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 10 Oct 2013, 12:24)
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My cousin Barry is the square root of -1.(
Dr Preference AjcuiVd289, Fri 11 Oct 2013, 13:11,
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That's imaginary,not irrational.
Speaking as a non-mathematician, I hope my pedantry is accurate.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 11 Oct 2013, 13:17,
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it's bothit's imaginary because it has no real part, and irrational because it can't be written as fraction of two real numbers
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The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Fri 11 Oct 2013, 16:22,
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Well, there you go.I didn't know that numeric rationality had reality as a criterion.
*learns*
Ta.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 11 Oct 2013, 19:33,
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rational numbers are a subset of real numbers, which in turn are a subset of complex numbersthe set of complex numbers comprises real numbers, imaginary numbers and numbers which consist of a real part plus an imaginary part
though you can get rational multiples of the imaginary root i (√-1), they are not "truly" rational numbers because they can't be expressed in terms of real numbers alone
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The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Fri 11 Oct 2013, 23:38,
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Square root of negative one!I really can't get enough of this hilarious joke!
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monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Fri 11 Oct 2013, 13:20,
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Stick to potatoes and religious oppression, maths isn't for micks.(
BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Fri 11 Oct 2013, 14:10,
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