▲ 1166 ▼ Big naturals is way easier to pronounce (sub.wetshaving.social) submitted 1 year ago by weird@sub.wetshaving.social to c/memes@lemmy.world 69 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 year ago (1 child) Sound made up, like imaginary numbers. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (1 child) I mean all numbers are made up when you think about it. Also unrelated but natural numbers are closed under multiplication (by pure coincidence) while imaginary numbers are not. This means natural numbers make worse examples when learning about sets. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] deltapi@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago Made me think of how everything is base 10, even octal or binary. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (1 child) I mean all numbers are made up when you think about it. Also unrelated but natural numbers are closed under multiplication (by pure coincidence) while imaginary numbers are not. This means natural numbers make worse examples when learning about sets. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] deltapi@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago Made me think of how everything is base 10, even octal or binary. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] deltapi@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago Made me think of how everything is base 10, even octal or binary. permalink fedilink source parent
